What is another word for hieroglyphics?

Pronunciation: [hˌa͡ɪ͡əɹəɡlˈɪfɪks] (IPA)

Hieroglyphics is a term that refers to the ancient Egyptian writing system that is thought to have been created around 3000 BC. The system used a combination of pictures, symbols and other graphical elements to represent words and concepts. However, there are several other words that can be used to refer to this system of writing, including pictographs, ideographs, and logograms. Pictographs are symbols that represent visible objects or concepts, ideographs represent abstract concepts, and logograms represent words or phrases. Each of these terms can be used to describe the various elements of hieroglyphics, providing different perspectives on the ancient Egyptian culture and the use of symbols in their writing.

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Usage examples for Hieroglyphics

The country houses are low, the roofs often covered with soil, and not infrequently rendered attractive with blooming heather and little blue-and-pink blossoms planted by Nature's hand,-the hieroglyphics in which she writes her impromptu poetry.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
If she hired any one to write a letter, her words vanished into incomprehensible hieroglyphics and she had no guarantee the man did not lie.
"Command"
William McFee
There was no superscription upon the folded paper; but, as the cavalier broke it open under the light of the lamp, at the head of the page could be seen something that resembled an address-written in hieroglyphics.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid

Famous quotes with Hieroglyphics

  • Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
    David Hare
  • Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
    Lydia Child
  • Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
    David Hare
  • The allegories of the "fall of man" and the "deluge," are the two most important features of the Pentateuch. They are, so to say, the Alpha and Omega, the highest and the lowest keys of the scale of harmony on which resounds the majestic hymns of the creation of mankind; for they discover to him who questions the Zura (figurative Gematria), the process of man's evolution from the highest spiritual entity unto the lowest physical — the post-diluvian man, as in the Egyptian hieroglyphics, every sign of the picture writing which cannot be made to fit within a certain circumscribed geometrical figure may be rejected as only intended by the sacred hierogrammatist for a premeditated blind — so many of the details in the Bible must be treated on the same principle, that portion only being accepted which answers to the numerical methods taught in the Kabala.
    Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
  • The hidden significance of these fables which is sometimes thought to have been detected, the ethics running parallel to the poetry and history, are not so remarkable as the readiness with which they may be made to express a variety of truths.In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn. In the history of the human mind, these glowing and ruddy fables precede the noonday thoughts of men, as Aurora the sun's rays.
    Henry David Thoreau

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