how to pronounce hieroglyph

/ˈhaɪə.ɹəˌɡlɪf/

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hieroglyph is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of hieroglyph in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… this hieroglyph here represents a nose …”

meanings of hieroglyph

noun:

An element of an ideographic (hieroglyphic) writing system.
Any obscure or baffling symbol.

verb:

To represent by hieroglyphs.

hieroglyph frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word hieroglyph occurs in english on average 0.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics hieroglyph can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that hieroglyph can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;