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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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He argued that the use of V for five is due to the fact that it is a kind of hieroglyph representing the open hand with its five fingers.
Sometimes it may take you a few seconds to process the visual pun in the illustration, as if it were a hieroglyph to be deciphered.
Second, a hieroglyph might represent or imply another word suggested by the picture.
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.
Here, the mirror is a hieroglyph for truth and confronts us with realities we might prefer not to see.

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