A writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds as a rebus
Undecipherable handwriting or secret symbol.
Any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph.
difficult to decipher
of, relating to, or written with this system of symbols
The basic type of a system for writing languages. For example, alphabetic writing or logographic writing.
A system for writing one or more languages; a particular alphabetic, syllabic, logographic, or other scheme. For example, the Latin alphabet or the Cyrillic alphabet.