Hieroglyph in a sentence

But what we do know is that, around the same time Tutankhamun lived, a new hieroglyph came into common usage – and its literal translation is ‘iron from the sky’.

The scoring is the Hieroglyph representing the “T” sound (Gardiner X1) which is a loaf of bread.

The Crenshaw District Hieroglyph Project, is by 31-year-old African-American artist Lauren Halsey, who was born and raised in South Los Angeles.

As used in the previous sentence, the word hieroglyphic is an adjective (in the same way photographic is an adjective), but is often erroneously used as a noun in place of hieroglyph.

Due to the fact that the phonetic realization of Egyptian cannot be known with certainty, Egyptologists use a system of transliteration to denote each sound which could be represented by a uniliteral hieroglyph.

History The Semitic sound value of Qôp (perhaps originally qaw, "cord of wool", and possibly based on an Egyptian hieroglyph ) was /q/ ( voiceless uvular stop ), a sound common to Semitic languages, but not found in English or most Indo-European ones.

It is thought that Semitic people working in Egypt c. 2000 BC borrowed a hieroglyph for "water" that was first used for an alveolar nasal ( /n/ ), because of the Egyptian word for water, n-t.

Much later, at the end of the Second Dynasty (c. 2890–2686 BCE), King Peribsen used the Set animal in writing his serekh -name, in place of the traditional falcon hieroglyph representing Horus.

One word is 'house', and its hieroglyphic representation is straightforward: pr:Z1 Here the 'house' hieroglyph works as a logogram: it represents the word with a single sign.

The hieroglyph for green represented a growing papyrus sprout, showing the close connection between green, vegetation, vigor and growth.

The hieroglyph system was always difficult to learn, but in later centuries was purposely made even more so, as this preserved the scribes' status.

The spelling of his name includes a hieroglyph which is thought to be connected with steering a boat, although its exact nature is not known.

The third hieroglyph is a determinative: it is an ideogram for verbs of motion that gives the reader an idea of the meaning of the word.

The two alphabetic characters are adding clarity to the spelling of the preceding triliteral hieroglyph.

The vertical stroke below the hieroglyph is a common way of indicating that a glyph is working as a logogram.

When this word is written, the 'house' hieroglyph is used as a phonetic symbol: pr:r-D54 Here the 'house' glyph stands for the consonants pr.