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Egyptian hieroglyphs

Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs (/ˈhaɪ.roʊ.ˌɡlɪfs/, HY-roh-glifs) or hieroglyphics were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined ideographic, logographic, syllabic, and alphabetic elements, with more than 1,000 distinct characters. Cursive hieroglyphs were used for religious literature on…

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Child systems
Hieratic · Proto-Sinaitic
Direction
Right-to-left, left-to-right, boustrophedon
Languages
Egyptian language
Parent systems
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Period
c. 3250 BC – c. 400 AD
Script type
Logographic (logoconsonantal)

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Egyptian hieroglyphs

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Triples108
Avg. degree1.99
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related to Further reading · 70
Egyptian hieroglyphs → Abrams, Adkins, Adolf, Allen, An Introduction, Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Angela, Art, At, Being, Berkeley, Bill Manley, Books, British Museum, British Museum Press, California Press, Cambridge University Press, Collier, Concise Dictionary, Culture
related to Encoding and font support · 15
Egyptian hieroglyphs → Aegyptus, Another, As, D52A D53, Egyptian, Gardiner's D52, JSeshFont, July, NewGardiner, Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs, October, Segoe UI Historic, Unicode, Unicode Standard, Windows
see also · 5
Egyptian hieroglyphs → Ancient Egypt, CodageChampollion MuseumHieraticCursive HieroglyphsDemotic, Egyptian, List, Sinaitic
Unicode range · 3
Egyptian hieroglyphs → U+13000–U+1342F Egyptian Hieroglyphs, U+13430–U+1345F Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls, U+13460–U+143FF Egyptian Hieroglyphs Extended-A
Child systems · 2
Egyptian hieroglyphs → Hieratic, Proto-Sinaitic
Direction · 1
Egyptian hieroglyphs → Right-to-left, left-to-right, boustrophedon
ISO 15924 · 1
Egyptian hieroglyphs → .mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}Egyp (050), ​Egyptian hieroglyphs
Languages · 1
Egyptian hieroglyphs → Egyptian language
Parent systems · 1
Egyptian hieroglyphs → Egyptian hieroglyphs
Period · 1
Egyptian hieroglyphs → c. 3250 BC – c. 400 AD

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hieroglyphs egyptian writing phonetic hieroglyphic word signs bc ancient language words meaning hieroglyph century period used use system alphabet read

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Egyptian hieroglyphsChild systemsHieratic1.00infobox
Egyptian hieroglyphsChild systemsProto-Sinaitic1.00infobox
Egyptian hieroglyphsDirectionRight-to-left, left-to-right, boustrophedon1.00infobox
Egyptian hieroglyphsISO 15924.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}Egyp (050), ​Egyptian hieroglyphs1.00infobox
Egyptian hieroglyphsLanguagesEgyptian language1.00infobox
Egyptian hieroglyphsParent systemsEgyptian hieroglyphs1.00infobox
Egyptian hieroglyphsPeriodc. 3250 BC – c. 400 AD1.00infobox
Egyptian hieroglyphsScript typeLogographic (logoconsonantal)1.00infobox
Egyptian hieroglyphsUnicode aliasEgyptian Hieroglyphs1.00infobox
Egyptian hieroglyphsUnicode rangeU+13000–U+1342F Egyptian Hieroglyphs1.00infobox
Egyptian hieroglyphsUnicode rangeU+13460–U+143FF Egyptian Hieroglyphs Extended-A1.00infobox
Egyptian hieroglyphsUnicode rangeU+13430–U+1345F Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls1.00infobox

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