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• The papyrus was written in hieratic, a cursive form of hieroglyphics.2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 117. From the entry hieratic
• His vigorous, chartlike compositions of hieroglyphic signs and word lists are products of a dandyish, semiotic gamesmanship.2008 May 30, Ken Johnson, “Each Experience Speaks Its Own Language”, in New York Times. From the entry chartlike
• The rebus principle appears in both the Egyptian hieroglyphic and in the Chinese writing systems.1995, Winfried Nöth, Handbook of Semiotics. From the entry rebus principle
• Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 6, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry numinous
• On the walls about were the hieroglyphic markings of the craft.1926 December 16, The Telegraph, Brisbane, page 20, column 7. From the entry chop suey
• The scribe had to dip his brush-pen quite often; he could write only five to nine hieroglyphic characters with each dip.2010, Leila Avrin -, Scribes, Script, and Books, →ISBN. From the entry brush-pen
• This latent syllabism, which underlies the alphabetism of the hieroglyphic writing, indicates with sufficient clearness the origin of the Egyptian alphabet.1995, Isaac Taylor, The Alphabet: An Account of the Origin and Development of Letters. From the entry syllabism
• One day I watched a professor cover the blackboard with a maze of partial differential equations, and they might as well have been hieroglyphics from the Second Dynasty.2011, Paul Allen, “Wazzu”, in Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft, New York, N.Y.: Portfolio, →ISBN, page 65. From the entry Wazzu
• The Meroic Script indigenized the Egyptian hieroglyphic writing and invented an alphabet of 23 letters, containing details of correspondence between the central government and provinces, trade and administrative matters.2008, Samuel Alfayo Nyanchoga, Samson Moenga Omwoyo, Ben N. Nyariki, Aspects of African history, page 62. From the entry meroic
• Hu is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in hus solutions of each and all a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension preternatural.2002 January 3, Bryan T. McMahon, quoting Sasha Newborn, “A terrible book”, in The Ponchatoula Times, page 7. From the entry hu
• Since then I have deciphered some more of Adam’s hieroglyphics, and think he has now become sufficiently important as a public character to justify this publication.1904, Mark Twain, Extracts from Adam's Diary. From the entry adam

Meaning of hieroglyphic

1. noun A writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds, often as a rebus.
2. noun Any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph.
3. noun Undecipherable handwriting or secret symbol.

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How do you use hieroglyphic in a sentence?

Hieroglyphic is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics.”

What is a short sentence with hieroglyphic?

“a hieroglyphic obelisk”

What does hieroglyphic mean?

Hieroglyphic means a writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds, often as a rebus.