The ancient Egyptian Sun hieroglyph is Gardiner sign listed no. N5 for the sun-disc;[1] it is also one of the hieroglyphs that refers to the god Ra.
The sun hieroglyph is used in the ancient Egyptian language hieroglyphs as a determinative to refer to events of time, for example when referring to '"day xx" (of month yy') . Even the "snap-of-the-finger", a 'moment', or 'instant' of time is represented using a Hippopotamus head (hieroglyph), Gardiner no. F3:
In the 24th century BC Palermo Stone, the sun hieroglyph is used on the Palermo Piece-(obverse) of the 7-piece Palermo Stone to identify dates, or specific "day-events", ..."day of ...." A few of the King Year-Register's are dates only for example in Row V (of VI rows):
For: "Month 2,
Some other common hieroglyphs based on the sun hieroglyph, are the Sun-with-rays (hieroglyph), Gardiner no. N8:
Ra, the Sun-god is Gardiner listed no. C1, of the listed: Anthropomorphic Deities - (more than 20 listed, and other Gardiner unlisted forms used in Ancient Egypt). The God Ra is shown with a sun-disc upon his head - or another common form with the Sun disc, encircled with Uraeus, (the cobra):
The Luwian language hieroglyphs, Luwian hieroglyphs has 7 varieties for the syllable of 's' and 'a'. For 'sa' number 4 (Sa4).