• A sacred character; a character in picture writing,
    as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the
    plural, the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made
    up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the
    hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representation of the
    object conveys the idea of the object itself; second, the ideographic,
    consisting of symbols representing ideas, not sounds, as an ostrich
    feather is a symbol of truth; third, the phonetic, consisting of
    symbols employed as syllables of a word, or as letters of the alphabet,
    having a certain sound, as a hawk represented the vowel a.


    Hieroglyphic meaning & definition 1 of Hieroglyphic.


  • n: A form of writing used by Ancient Egyptians.
    adj: means [complex]

    Hieroglyphic meaning & definition 2 of Hieroglyphic.


  • Writing consisting of hieroglyphs.

    Hieroglyphic meaning & definition 3 of Hieroglyphic.

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