Egyptian hieroglyph
Etymology
The word hieroglyph comes from the Greek words ?????????? (hieroglúphos) hiero- (?????), meaning "sacred", and glyph (???????), meaning "carving". The Egyptian phrase for hieroglyphs is transliterated as mdw n?r .
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