hieroglyphic vs numeral

hieroglyphic

noun
  • Any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph. 

  • Undecipherable handwriting or secret symbol. 

  • A writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds as a rebus 

adj
  • difficult to decipher 

  • of, relating to, or written with this system of symbols 

numeral

noun
  • A representation of a number composed of such symbols. 

  • A number word, a simple or compound word for a number often having particular grammatical attributes depending on the language. 

  • A symbol that is not a word and represents a number, such as the Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3 and the Roman numerals I, V, X, L. 

  • A card whose rank is a number (usually including the ace as 1). 

adj
  • Of or relating to numbers; numerical. 

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