hieroglyph
noun [ C ] uk/ˈhaɪ.rə.ɡlɪf/ us/ˈhaɪ.roʊ.ɡlɪf/
（用于古埃及文字等的）象形符号，象形字
a picture or symbol that represents a word, used in some writing systems, such as the one used in ancient Egypt
The inscriptions that lined the walls of ancient Egyptian tombs were written in hieroglyphs.
It was not until the 1970s that the full meaning of many Mayan hieroglyphs was understood.
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- Archaeologists studied hieroglyphs on the sarcophogi for clues about their contents.
- Hieroglyphs can be written left to right and right to left.
- Hieroglyphs are thousands of years older than the oldest Latin.
- Before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, researchers had puzzled over the hieroglyphs that covered monuments and manuscripts.