The ancient Egyptian Water-jugs-in-stand hieroglyph, is Gardiner sign listed no. W17, W18, within the Gardiner signs for vessels of stone and earthenware.
The hieroglyph is used as an ideogram in (kh)nt-(ḫnt), for 'a stand (for vases)'. It is also used phonetically for (ḫnt).
<div>The water-jugs-in-stand hieroglyph is often written with the complement of three other hieroglyphs, the water ripple, <hiero>N35</hiero>, bread bun, <hiero>X1</hiero>, and two strokes, <hiero>Z4</hiero>, to make the Egyptian language word foremost, khenti. The complete composition block is: <hiero>W17-N35:X1*Z4</hiero></div>
As Egyptian "khenti", foremost is used extensively to refer to gods, often in charge of a region, or position, as foremost of xxxx. Anubis, or Osiris are often referred to as "Foremost", or "Chief" of the 'western cemetery', (where the sun sets).