hieroglyph

Example Sentences

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A vulture is used as the hieroglyph for mother, mut being the word for them both, and for the mother goddess of Thebes.

From Salon • May 11, 2025

“What’s happened now,” said Ms. Ben Dor Evian, who has a hieroglyph app on her cellphone, “is that it is easier to click on an emoji than to write a whole word.”

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2020

Some other holes were tagged with the Nefer hieroglyph, the symbol for “good”; perhaps some benefit accrued to pieces that landed there, Carter speculated.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 26, 2019

Some media outlets have likened emojis to modern-day hieroglyph.

From The Guardian • May 28, 2016

He halted and dropped to one knee, scratching the hieroglyph of the pintail duck in the dust with his finger.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw