- 1象形文字的；象形文字（聖書體）
Hieroglyphic works two ways, both about the same kind of writing. As an adjective, it describes that writing: hieroglyphic signs, a hieroglyphic text, especially the old Egyptian kind. As a noun, a hieroglyphic is one of those picture-signs, the same idea as . People also talk about hieroglyphic writing as a system. Though actually, in everyday English the plural noun hieroglyphics is what most people say when they mean the system; hieroglyphic as a noun is a bit more textbook. Scholars sometimes prefer or hieroglyphic writing and treat hieroglyphics as a little old-fashioned — but students will still see hieroglyphics everywhere, including on museum signs.
組成hiero- (sacred, holy) + glyphic (carved, engraved). First coined 1726, from French hiéroglyphique, from Latin hieroglyphicus, from Ancient Greek hierogluphikós, from hierós 'sacred' + glúphō 'to carve, to engrave.'
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- hieroglypha later noun cut back from this word: one picture-sign
- hieroglyphicsthe common noun for the writing system
- glyphshares glyph: a carved or written sign
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hieroglyphicnoun/ˌhaɪɹəˈɡlɪfɪk/
- 1
A writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds, often as a rebus.
- 2
Any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph.
- I must say, that, at the coronation, there was little vestige left as possible "of the charms that pleased a king." "She looked," Lady Mary Wortley said, "like an Egyptian mummy, wrought with hieroglyphics of gold."
- The hieroglyphics or symbols, however, were reversed, just as though they had been pressed on wax.
- 3
Undecipherable handwriting or secret symbol.
- Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics.
hieroglyphicadj/ˌhaɪɹəˈɡlɪfɪk/
- 1
Of, relating to, or written with such a system of symbols.
- the hieroglyphic writing of ancient Egypt
- a hieroglyphic obelisk
- 2
Difficult to decipher.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。