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What does hieroglyph mean?

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Noun
  1. An element of an ideographic (hieroglyphic) writing system.
  2. (informal) Any obscure or baffling symbol.
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It is printed with a sort of movable type, and each character is a pictograph or hieroglyph.
He argued that the use of V for five is due to the fact that it is a kind of hieroglyph representing the open hand with its five fingers.
Originally, as a hieroglyph, the character is based on the action of opening two doors of a gate.
Here, the mirror is a hieroglyph for truth and confronts us with realities we might prefer not to see.
There is very little paint preserved, but each hieroglyph is a fully formed work of art, a tiny masterpiece cut in finest limestone.
The scandal lies also in the fact that the transgression is visible, appearing like a strange hieroglyph on her face that others contemplate with fear and trepidation.

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