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Gender Masculine
Usage Ancient Egyptian
Meaning & History
Meaning uncertain, as there are multiple readings of the name. It could possibly derive from Egyptian ḥw "utterance" (also the name of the god Hu 2) or ḥwj "to strike, hit, beat" or "to tread (a road)". This was the name of the last pharaoh of the Third Dynasty of Egypt during the Old Kingdom period.