hieroglyph
Example Sentences
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Those remarkable dressings displayed here reveal dynamic, shorthand ink vignettes—energetic hieroglyphs and vibrating, wiry stick figures whose spells discharge like lightning.
It went on in a dozen languages and characters, even hieroglyphs!
From Literature
We use hieroglyphs to turn words into pictures.
From Literature
The exterior is covered in hieroglyphs and translucent alabaster cut into triangles with a pyramid shaped entrance.
From BBC
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
