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词汇 hieroglyphic
释义 hieroglyphic
adjective
uk /ˌhaɪ.rəˈɡlɪf.ɪk/ us /ˌhaɪ.rəˈɡlɪf.ɪk/
in or relating to a system of writing that uses pictures instead of words, especially as used in ancient Egypt:
The funerary cones carry the names and titles of the tomb owner in hieroglyphic script.
Hieroglyphic clay tablets were found here.
Related words
hieroglyph
hieroglyphically
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demotic
hieratic
The meticulous observations of Egyptologists illuminated the study of hieroglyphic writing.
This volume contains a collection of Egyptian texts in hieroglyphic script.
The library's grey granite is carved with characters from 120 different hieroglyphic and alphabetical scripts.
Hieroglyphic pictograms came after the beginning of abstract writing as we know it.
The interesting thing about this inscription is that it's not hieroglyphic, and doesn't correspond to anything we know about ancient languages.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Lettering & alphabets
all caps
alphabet
alphabetical
alphabetically
ascender
Braillist
camel case
copperplate
hieroglyph
ideogram
IPA
Latinized
multi-character
non-phonetic
paleographical
penmanship
roman
stenography
tittle
upper case

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Ancient history: before 500 AD
hieroglyphic
noun
uk /ˌhaɪ.rəˈɡlɪf.ɪk/ us /ˌhaɪ.rəˈɡlɪf.ɪk/
[ C ]
a picture or symbol that represents a word:
We passed many doorways on either side, each marked with its descriptive hieroglyphic.
He handed me a scrap of paper on which was scrawled a little sketch, or perhaps a hieroglyphic.
Similar hieroglyphics have been found in southern Arizona.
 hieroglyphics[ plural ]
a system of writing that uses pictures instead of words, especially as used in ancient Egypt: 象形文字(尤指古埃及的文字)
He learned to write his name in hieroglyphics.
For many centuries, nobody could read hieroglyphics.
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demotic
hieratic
Related word
hieroglyph
The dimly lit interior is a maze of spooky stone chambers engraved with hieroglyphics.
This room was covered in Mayan hieroglyphics.
The Rosetta Stone helped to translate hieroglyphics and tell the story of early Egyptian civilizations.
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Signs, signals and symbols
acid test
backward slash
backwards slash
beacon
breadcrumb
hieroglyphically
iconographic
iconographically
iconography
lagging indicator
obelus
octothorpe
paraph
penalty flag
pilcrow
pointer
prompt
the all-clear
token
torch

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Lettering & alphabets
Ancient history: before 500 AD

Examples of hieroglyphic


hieroglyphic
If the sight of it and similar hieroglyphics offends your eye, then this is not the book for you.
Visually, a somewhat similar vertical and horizontal hierarchy and appreciation of dynamics is applied to the hieroglyphics.
The other three codices contain hieroglyphic texts in combination with pictorial scenes that form the basis of instruments known as almanacs and tables.
It is value, rather, that converts every product into a social hieroglyphic.
The texts are given here in my hieroglyphic transcription.
Meaning is 'read' much like hieroglyphics, a visual code whose impression masks something hidden, something waiting to be revealed.
Furthermore, the mostly fruitless attempts to identify emblem glyphs have been made more difficult by fewer and less well-understood hieroglyphic texts.
Sometimes the corresponding glyphs are distributed over several blocks, providing a sure reading order, whereas they are usually pressed into one single hieroglyphic block.
Although these claims were pioneering work, they are problematic insofar as their hieroglyphic evidence did not match the established definition of emblem glyphs.
The hieroglyphics show patterns similar to those found in the figures.
A short hieroglyphic caption above the scene uses the k'altun verb.
Frequently, the communication of road signs resembles a hybrid hieroglyphic system.
Translation of individual hieroglyphics did not lead to an understanding of the language.
The numbers, then, seemed to ratify astronomical content within the inscriptions; so did a partial understanding of the hieroglyphics.
First, the book contains high-quality line drawings of impor tant monuments, hieroglyphic texts, and iconographic details.
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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