hieroglyph
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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
And of course Marshall’s hieroglyph was the double crown of Egypt because he was already the boy-pharaoh—and that’s what he liked to be best.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Vocabulary lists containing hieroglyph
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