English to Chinese Meaning of hieroglyph - 象形文字

Hieroglyph :

象形文字

noun

象形文字

Hieroglyph :: 象形文字Hieroglyphic :: 象形文字Hieroglyphics :: 象形文字Hieroglyphs :: 象形文字

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Definitions of hieroglyph in English

Noun(1) writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible(2) a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt

Examples of hieroglyph in English

(1) The Egyptian hieroglyph for ├ö├ç├┐city├ö├ç├û was a circle surrounding a cross; but squares and grids were always the more favoured geometry of utopian planners.(2) The name Sekem is a transliteration of an ancient hieroglyph meaning ├ö├ç├┐vitality from the sun.├ö├ç├û(3) The book of the series, also called The Science Of Secrecy, expands and illuminates the same topics, including the cipher of Mary Queen of Scots, how Egyptian hieroglyphs were read and the Enigma machine.(4) The ancient Egyptians either engraved the hieroglyphs in the stonework of their temples or painted them on the walls of the burial chamber or inscribed them with a reed pen on rolls of papyrus, the antecedent of our paper.(5) A stone floor, engraved with both Egyptian hieroglyphs and Roman numerals, occupies the ground between them.(6) She walked on, ignoring the many hieroglyphs and pictures painted and carved onto the stone walls, instead walking towards the doorway at the opposite end of the hall.(7) She is believed to have negotiated a highly profitable oil deal with the Nabatean Arabs, and she was the only member of the ruling Macedonian Greek elite who knew how to read hieroglyphs ; she also spoke many foreign languages.(8) It was covered with black symbols that might have been Egyptian hieroglyphs or Chinese characters or some strange hybrid of the two.(9) He then translates hieratic writing into hieroglyphs .(10) But for 1400 years the meaning of the hieroglyphs - and therefore knowledge of ancient Egyptian civilisation - remained this huge mystery.(11) Five columns of Egyptian hieroglyphs run below the cornice and read from right to left, ├ö├ç├┐the great one [ruler] of the land of Ugarit, Niqma'd.├ö├ç├û(12) In much of the Egyptian hieroglyphs , the Pharaoh was often depicted as almost larger than life, with great power and much of Egyptian art is a celebration of his accomplishments.(13) He studied Egyptian hieroglyphs and helped Bernini with his fountain in the Piazza Navona.(14) Scribes carved hieroglyphs on stone stelae, altars, wooden lintels, and roof beams, or painted them on ceramic vessels and in books made of bark paper.(15) Going back a little further, we see that writers associated with the French occult revival at the end of the eighteenth century began to link the Tarot, first with Egyptian hieroglyphs , then with the Kabbala.(16) It seems that Egyptians continued to use hieroglyphs from around 3000 b.c. until the time of the Roman Empire.

(1) social hierarchy ::

社会等级

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Noun

1. hieroglyphic ::

象形文字

Different Forms

hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, hieroglyphics, hieroglyphs

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