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Determinatives meaning
plural of determinative
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Determinatives Determinatives or semagrams (semantic symbols specifying meaning) are placed at the end of a word.
Phonetic complements should not be confused with determinatives (which were also used to disambiguate) since determinatives were used specifically to indicate the category of the word they preceded or followed.
Today, hieroglyphicists use numerous cataloguing systems (notably the Manuel de Codage and Gardiner's Sign List ) to clarify the presence of determinatives, ideograms, and other ambiguous signs in transliteration.