| 词汇 | hieroglyph |
| 释义 | hieroglyph noun[ C ] uk /ˈhaɪ.rə.ɡlɪf/ us /ˈhaɪ.roʊ.ɡlɪf/ a picture or symbol that represents a word, used in some writing systems, such as the one used in ancient Egypt: （用于古埃及文字等的）象形符号，象形字 The inscriptions that lined the walls of ancient Egyptian tombs were written in hieroglyphs. It was not until the 1970s that the full meaning of many Mayan hieroglyphs was understood. Related words hieroglyphic hieroglyphically Archaeologists studied hieroglyphs on the sarcophogi for clues about their contents. Hieroglyphs can be written left to right and right to left. Hieroglyphs are thousands of years older than the oldest Latin. Before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, researchers had puzzled over the hieroglyphs that covered monuments and manuscripts. Lettering & alphabets all caps alphabet alphabetical alphabetically ascender Braillist camel case copperplate ideogram IPA Latinize Latinized multi-character non-phonetic paleographical roman stenography title case tittle upper case You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Signs, signals and symbols Ancient history: before 500 AD Examples of hieroglyphhieroglyph In our purely historical world, even laws are mere hieroglyphs in the sand. Literature co-operated as well: poems were set up in altars and hieroglyphs in pyramids. In addition, as stated earlier, the hieroglyphs on the reverse of the shell are upside down when the front of the shell is turned around. Utilization of hieroglyphs thus enabled the artist to represent more clearly the complex simultaneity of nature. The chiselled, unperturbed musical themes of the ballet are heard as distinct events, elements of an abstract design that could very easily be a full-fledged text as indecipherable as hieroglyphs. Symbols function as hieroglyphs of the interpenetration of divinity and the world, but symbols can never be exhaustively decoded or understood. All too often, interpreters of culture are hobbled by the formidable mystique of music as a foreign language, of the score as hieroglyph, of musical form as technical and esoteric. There are hieroglyphs printed on a passport which are not adequately explained to the bearer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 While they search for his body, they find footprints that lead to a slipper, inside of which they find another note with a purple hieroglyph. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There was even a hieroglyph ("nedjem/bener") depicting a carob pod that bore the primary meaning of sweet; pleasant. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In the studio she could take all the time needed to coax and transfer details of figures and hieroglyphs onto the cloth. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Other scarabs with this title have variations of what hieroglyphs are added or omitted because of the multiple copies made of this "scarab series". From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Egyptians used cursive hieroglyphs for religious literature on papyrus and wood. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The author recounts his fruitless attempts to make plaster casts of the superb hieroglyphs and gives other curious details. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Hieroglyphs representing celebration, a child, and dancing respectively. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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