| 单词 | hieroglyphic |
| 释义 | hieroglyphic (once / 2906 pages) nadj If your written language consists of pictures rather than letters and words, your written communication would be hieroglyphic in nature. Ancient Egyptian writing was hieroglyphic. The pictures that make up hieroglyphic language are called hieroglyphs. The word descended from the Greek hierogluphikos which could be translated to mean "sacred carvings." Back when written communication was literally carved in stone, most of what was written was important, or "sacred." Today if someone describes your handwriting as hieroglyphic, they mean something quite different - your writing is awful and illegible. WORD FAMILYhieroglyphic: hieroglyphically, hieroglyphics USAGE EXAMPLESWhat appeared later that afternoon on the final stat sheet from Columbus will remain as indecipherable as some certain elusive hieroglyphics. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) “The earliest recorded images of juggling are hieroglyphics,” Gandini said. Los Angeles Times(Nov 16, 2016) Music was getting more percussive; teenagers with spray cans were scrawling hieroglyphic names and full-fledged murals on subway cars. New York Times(Aug 26, 2016) 1n a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt Syn|Hypo|Hyper hieroglyph 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 hieroglyph writing letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language 3adj written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols Syn hieroglyphical 4adj resembling hieroglyphic writing Syn hieroglyphical |
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