The picture above is Egyptian hieroglyphics, some of the symbols are relatively easy to understand words, people judge the meaning of the words by the appearance of the characters. Pictographs combine pictographic, syllabic, and alphabetic elements. From the picture above, we can see that some snakes, owls, people and birds, these very vivid symbols express their own meaning. The concept required to master the language is to see it from a different perspective. Visually, hieroglyphs are more or less symbolic: they represent real or abstract elements. Sometimes, depending on the context, the same symbol can be interpreted in different ways: as a phonetic symbol (phonetic reading), as a logogram, or as an ideogram, all of which mean different things. A metaphorical word is a flamingo, which looks like a flamingo on the icon, but actually means “red” because flamingos are red.
Egyptian hieroglyphs remind me of the software Zhihu. The main page of Zhihu has many icons to represent a different meaning, but these icons are very vivid. Even without adding text, you can see the meaning of the icons. Hieroglyphics are very similar. But unlike Egyptian hieroglyphs, modern icons have no way of expressing multiple meanings or a dynamic meaning.
