0 a form of writing used eg in ancient Egypt, in which pictures represent words and sounds. -- hiroglif
There are other interesting hieroglyphics.
He scribbled some hieroglyphics on the bottom.
They were the people who turned hieroglyphics into the alphabet.
I am really like a man trying to decipher hieroglyphics.
Any teacher who is handed an entire page of hieroglyphics written from right to left knows that something is amiss.
Now these leaflets are abundantly supplied with hieroglyphics of a kind, but they are not hieroglyphics which make it very easy to identify them.
You reach the point when you have hieroglyphics in front of you which you cannot read, and no one else can read them.
She was peering at the hieroglyphics printed on the cellophane wrappings.
