Hand-with-droplets (hieroglyph)
The ancient Egyptian Hand-with-droplets hieroglyph, Gardiner sign listed no. D46A is a portrayal of the hand, with droplet offerings. In the Old Kingdom usage it is found on ivory labels and slab stelas, presumably with the use of 'aroma' and unguents, or with incense. As the verb usage with 'libation', water or liquids are involved.
Usage
The hand-with-droplets hierogoglyph is used as a determinative for water libations, or the aroma droplets, related to unguents. The Egyptian language usage of the noun, as "incense" or an "incense offering", is id, or id.t, represented as:The Egyptian language verb form, "to cense, to pour out a libation", spelled as id, idy, has three hieroglyph spellings in the Budge two-volume dictionary.
A third noun usage is for the word "dew", Egyptian language id. The single form has many spellings with the determinative usage-, and a plural form in hieroglyphs as: