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Ideograph vs. Hieroglyph — What's the Difference?

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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