Vertical Stroke
The vertical stroke as a sign is often used with sound-meaning signs to indicate their status as ideograms. More commonly it is also used as a space filler..jpg)
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Solar disk
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House
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Awl
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Mouth
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Face
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Heart
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Arm
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Relation between Sign and Meaning
One might ask if there is any relation between what the sign originally represents and the meaning of the words in which the same sign is used as a phonogram. In fact, generally speaking, there is no relation: for instance
which is a biliteral sign that forms the word 
indicates to love, like, desire. The sign itself represents a hoe and is used in the word in question only as a sound sign.