No writing system is wholly logographic: all have phonetic components as well as logograms (" logosyllabic " components in the case of Chinese characters, cuneiform, and Mayan, where a glyph may stand for a morpheme, a syllable, or both ; " logoconsonantal " in the case of hieroglyphs ), and many have an ideographic component ( Chinese " radicals ", hieroglyphic " determiners ").

With the spread of Christianity in Egypt, by the late 3rd century, knowledge of hieroglyphic writing was lost, as well as Demotic slightly later, making way for a writing system more closely associated with the Christian church.

Hieratic refers to a cursive writing system that was used in the provenance of the pharaohs in Egypt and Nubia that developed alongside the hieroglyphic system, to which it is intimately related.

The word hieroglyphics () may refer to writings in a hieroglyphic system.

Dongba writing is a complex hieroglyphic system made of phonetic and symbolic notations that have existed for over a thousand years ( before the T ’ ang Dynasty ).

Dongba is one of only a few hieroglyphic system still in use today.

The script is an independently derived hieroglyphic writing system.

It is the astronomical symbol / astrological symbol for the Sun, and the ancient Egyptian sign for " sun " or " Ra " in the hieroglyphic writing system.

Sayce concluded that the Hittite hieroglyphic system was predominantly a syllabary, that is, its symbols stood for a phonetic syllable.

By late 1886, only seven signs had been deciphered out of the totality of signs belonging to the hieroglyphic system.

... a " spiff " system is usually adopted, spiffs being premiums placed on certain articles, not of the last fashion, indicated by a marvellous hieroglyphic put on the price ticket.

Carved stones bearing marks denoting weight and the Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol for gold have been discovered, which suggests that Egyptian merchants had been using an established system of weight measurement to catalog gold shipments and / or gold mine yields.

Míkmaq hieroglyphic writing was a writing system and memory aid used by the Míkmaq, a Native American people of the east coast of what is now Canada.

This system is used ( though frequently with modifications ) by various software packages developed for typesetting hieroglyphic texts ( such as SignWriter, WinGlyph, MacScribe, InScribe, Glyphotext, WikiHiero, and others ).

Both are probably derived from the Latin barica, from Greek baris " Egyptian boat ", from Coptic bari " small boat ", hieroglyphic Egyptian < small >< hiero > D58-G29-M17-M17-D21-P1 </ hiero ></ small > and similar ba-y-r for " basket-shaped boat ".

The Maya are known for having used puns in their hieroglyphic writing, and for using them in their modern languages.

Major advances in the decoding were: recognition that the stone offered three versions of the same text ( 1799 ); that the demotic text used phonetic characters to spell foreign names ( 1802 ); that the hieroglyphic text did so as well, and had pervasive similarities to the demotic ( Thomas Young, 1814 ); and that, in addition to being used for foreign names, phonetic characters were also used to spell native Egyptian words ( Champollion, 1822 – 1824 ).

These parallels, and a hieroglyphic sign for " stela " on the stone itself ( Gardiner's Sign O26 ) < div style =" display: inline ;">< hiero > O26 </ hiero ></ div > suggest that it originally had a rounded top.

Thus, when Thomas Young, foreign secretary of the Royal Society of London, wrote to him about the stone in 1814, Silvestre de Sacy suggested in reply that in attempting to read the hieroglyphic text, Young might look for cartouches that ought to contain Greek names and try to identify phonetic characters in them.

This process, necessarily different and distinctive for each individual, is referred to within the Temple by the Egyptian hieroglyphic term Kheper, or " Xeper " ( a phonetic of _Xpr_ ), as the Temple of Set prefers to write it.

In art, originally Isis was pictured as a woman wearing a long sheath dress and crowned with the hieroglyphic sign for a throne.

The decree, written in Greek, demotic, and hieroglyphs is an ancient bilingual Egyptian decree that provides a key for deciphering hieroglyphic and the simpler demotic scripts.

( These were employed in the temples for ceremonial time-keeping, which use explains the use of the palm branch as the hieroglyphic symbol for rnp. t, " year ").

There are also some signs that are unique to hieratic, though Egyptologists have invented equivalent hieroglyphic forms for hieroglyphic transcriptions and typesetting.

On the thirtieth of the month of the Shemu one can see the hieroglyphic for Peret ( season ) | Peret, which indicates the end of the harvest season.

2000 BCE is a reasonable date for the Huastec / Maya split, and the slopes of the Cuchumatanes range as a reasonable location for the speakers of proto-Maya, it seems likely that the split occurred after these proto-Maya speakers ( or a portion of them ) began to migrate north, probably along the Usumacinta River, and before the two groups resulting from the split began to move in opposite directions: the proto-Huastec speakers moving northwest ( and, soon thereafter, the proto-Chicomuceltec west into the Chiapas highlands ), and the proto-Yucatec / other Maya-speakers spreading northeast ( one branch of which became Chontal, presumed by many from its widespread loan words and hieroglyphic evidence to be the dominant language of the classic Peten Maya heartland ) ( see Fig.

Ma ' at was often represented by an ostrich feather, the hieroglyphic sign for her name.

Mu was derived from the Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol for water ( ) which had been simplified by the Phoenicians and named after their word for water, to become mem 20px.

Of note Merwin discovered one of the site's three courts for playing the Mesoamerican ballgame, which had stone markers with hieroglyphic texts and depictions of the ballgame.

The Egyptian hieroglyphic sign for addition, for example, resembled a pair of legs walking in the direction in which the text was written ( Egyptian could be written either from right to left or left to right ), with the reverse sign indicating subtraction:

* Kmt or km. t, the hieroglyphic representation of Kemet, the ancient Egyptian name of Egypt

In 1811, prompted by discussions with a Chinese student about Chinese script, Silvestre de Sacy considered a suggestion made by Georg Zoëga in 1797 that the foreign names in Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions might be written phonetically ; he also recalled that as long ago as 1761, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy had suggested that the characters enclosed in cartouches in hieroglyphic inscriptions were proper names.

From this point, the stories of the Rosetta Stone and the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs diverge, as Champollion drew on many other texts to develop a first Ancient Egyptian grammar and a hieroglyphic dictionary, both of which were to be published after his death.

The Egyptian language, which formed a separate branch among the family of Afro-Asiatic languages, was among the first written languages, and is known from hieroglyphic inscriptions preserved on monuments and sheets of papyrus.

Greek, a well known language, gave linguists the ability to decipher the mysterious Egyptian hieroglyphic language.

This stone is a Ptolemaic era stele written with the same text in two Egyptian language scripts ( hieroglyphic and demotic ) and in classical Greek.

This stone will provide the key to the hieroglyphic, or pictographic writing, of ancient Egypt and the decree on it reveals the increasing influence of Egyptian natives, remitted debts and taxes, released prisoners, pardoned rebels who have surrendered, and granted increased benefactions to the temples.

The hieroglyphic rendering of the Egyptian word š < sup >< span style =" font-size: 80 %"> 3 </ span ></ sup > sw ( Shasu ) means " those who move on foot ".

Other scholars worked on producing a hieroglyphic dictionary, developing a Demotic lexicon, and establishing an outline of ancient Egyptian history.

Kircher claimed to have deciphered the hieroglyphic writing of the ancient Egyptian language, but most of his assumptions and translations in this field were later found to be nonsensical.

In late Egyptian mythology, Wepwawet ( hieroglyphic wp-w3w. t ; also rendered Upuaut, Wep-wawet, Wepawet, and Ophois ) was originally a war deity, whose cult centre was Asyut in Upper Egypt ( Lycopolis in the Greco-Roman period ).

* Egyptian pool, a water symbol used in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing

The Ankh ( or ; U + 2625 ☥ or U + 132F9 ), also known as key of life, the key of the Nile or crux ansata ( Latin meaning " cross with a handle "), was the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic character that read " life ", a triliteral sign for the consonants ꜥ-n-ḫ.