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埃及象形文字几千年变化
Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics were one of the hardest of Egypt's mysteries to uncover! Check out our fascinating facts about hieroglyphics…
古埃及象形文字是埃及最难揭开的谜团之一！看看我们关于象形文字的迷人事实…
Learn about how Egyptian writing works and what it all represents, plus find out how to spell your name in hieroglyphics.
了解埃及文字是如何工作的，以及它所代表的一切，并找出如何拼写你的名字在象形文字。
· Facts about hieroglyphics
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Although hieroglyphics are Egyptian, the word hieroglyphics is Greek. "Hiero" means "holy" and "glyphics" means "marks" or "writings" – so the word means "holy writings".
虽然象形文字是埃及文字，但象形文字是希腊文字。"Hiero"的意思是"神圣的"，"glyphics"的意思是"标记"或"书写"——所以这个词的意思是"神圣的书写"。
The Egyptians believed there was great power in a name. If someone's name was remembered then he or she would survive in the afterlife. That's why pharaohs' names were written in hieroglyphics in their tombs!
埃及人相信一个名字有巨大的力量。如果有人的名字被记住了，那么他或她将在来世存活下来。这就是为什么法老的名字被用象形文字写在他们的坟墓里！
What do the pictures mean?
照片是什么意思？
Most of the pictures can stand for the object they represent, but usually they stand for sounds. In Egyptian, the owl stands for the sound "m". The Egyptian symbol for a mouth can mean mouth but it's usually read as the sound "r". You can't exactly match our alphabet to hieroglyphics, because they are two very different languages, but historians have come up with a simplified translation of our letters and Egyptian hieroglyphs.
大多数图片可以代表它们所代表的对象，但通常它们代表声音。在埃及语中，猫头鹰代表"m"音。埃及的口形符号可以表示嘴巴，但通常被解读为"r"音。你不能把我们的字母表和象形文字完全匹配，因为它们是两种截然不同的语言，但是历史学家已经提出了我们的字母和埃及象形文字的简化翻译。
Hieroglyphics can be pictures of living creatures, objects used in daily life or symbols. Some are easy to identify, some confusing and some impossible! If you look at the alphabet chart, you can easily spot the foot, the hand, the lion and the owl, but why are there two different kinds of snakes?
象形文字可以是生物的图片、日常生活中使用的物体或符号。有些很容易识别，有些令人困惑，有些不可能！如果你看字母表，你可以很容易地发现脚，手，狮子和猫头鹰，但为什么有两种不同的蛇？
From A to Sh, the hieroglyphic symbols are:
从A到Sh，象形文字符号是：
A an Egyptian vulture埃及秃鹫
B a foot一英尺
C a basket with handle带把手的篮子
D a hand手
E a reed芦苇
F a horned viper (an Egyptian snake)埃及蛇
G a jar-stand广口瓶架
H a reed shelter芦苇棚
I a reed芦苇
J a cobra眼镜蛇
K the basket with the handle again (because hard "C" is like "K")带手把的篮子
L a lion狮子
M an owl猫头鹰
N a zigzag symbol for water水的曲折符号
O a lasso套索
P a square stool方凳
Q a symbol for the slope of a hill山的斜坡
R a mouth嘴
S a piece of linen folded over折叠起来的亚麻布
T a bun小面包
U a quail chick (which stands for the sound "U")鹌鹑鸡
V a horned viper角奎蛇
W a quail chick鹌鹑
X a basket and folded linen篮子和折叠的亚麻布
Y two reeds两条芦苇
Z a door bolt门闩
CH a hobble一瘸一拐
KH a ball of string璇球
SH the rectangle (which is the symbol for land)矩形
