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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.
There is very little paint preserved, but each hieroglyph is a fully formed work of art, a tiny masterpiece cut in finest limestone.
All in me and out of me is only the hieroglyph of a power which is like to me.
The hieroglyph for the west stands behind a seated figure of Inherkhau who faces a huge ka-symbol.
The Japanese calligraphy is not only the beauty, but also the sense more complex frequently, than value of written by brush hieroglyph.
Originally, as a hieroglyph, the character is based on the action of opening two doors of a gate.

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