Ideograph vs. Hieroglyph — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ideograph and Hieroglyph
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Ideograph
See ideogram.
Hieroglyph
A hieroglyph (Greek for "sacred carvings") was a character of the ancient Egyptian writing system. Logographic scripts that are pictographic in form in a way reminiscent of ancient Egyptian are also sometimes called "hieroglyphs".
Ideograph
An ideogram.
Hieroglyph
A stylized picture of an object representing a word, syllable, or sound, as found in ancient Egyptian and certain other writing systems
Hieroglyphs describing the Mayan calendar
Ideograph
Same as Ideogram.
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Hieroglyph
A picture or symbol used in hieroglyphic writing.
Ideograph
A graphic character used in ideography
Hieroglyph
Something that suggests a hieroglyph.
Hieroglyph
An element of an ideographic (hieroglyphic) writing system.
Hieroglyph
(informal) Any obscure or baffling symbol.
Hieroglyph
To represent by hieroglyphs.
Hieroglyph
A sacred character; a character used in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representation of the object conveys the idea of the object itself; second, the ideographic, consisting of symbols representing ideas, not sounds, as an ostrich feather is a symbol of truth; third, the phonetic, consisting of symbols employed as syllables of a word, or as letters of the alphabet, having a certain sound, as a hawk represented the vowel a.
Hieroglyph
Any character or figure which has, or is supposed to have, a hidden or mysterious significance; hence, any unintelligible or illegible character or mark.
Hieroglyph
Writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible)
Hieroglyph
A writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt
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