| 单词 | hieroglyph |
| 释义 | hieroglyph (once / 8547 pages) n WORD FAMILY hieroglyph: hieroglyphical, hieroglyphs USAGE EXAMPLESTens of thousands of hieroglyphs, carved in bas-relief and painted with vivid colors, covered the walls of nine of them. The New Yorker(Nov 20, 2016) The cracking of hieroglyphs, discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and “mummymania” from the nineteenth century onwards ensured that the craze persists almost unabated today. Nature(Nov 08, 2016) Attendees can also learn to write hieroglyphs like the Egyptians, weave like the makers of medieval tapestries and make pop-up books based on world myths. New York Times(Nov 03, 2016) 1n a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt Syn|Hypo|Hyper hieroglyphic hieratic, hieratic script a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests Demotic, Demotic scripta simplified cursive form of the ancient hieratic script orthography, writing system a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols 2n writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible) Syn|Hyper hieroglyphic writing letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language |
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