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Answer for the clue "Ancient Egyptian pictograph, e.g ", 5 letters:
glyph

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In typography , a glyph is an elemental symbol within an agreed set of symbols, intended to represent a readable character for the purposes of writing . As such, glyphs are considered to be unique marks that collectively add up to the spelling of a word, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea. 2 Any non-verbal symbol that imparts information. 3 (anchor: en_noun_typography)(context typography computing English) A visual representation of a letter, character, ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1727, "ornamental groove in architecture," from French glyphe (1701), from Greek glyphe "a carving," from glyphein "to hollow out, cut out with a knife, engrave, carve," from PIE root *gleubh- "to cut, slice" (cognates: Latin glubere "to peel, shell, strip," ...

Usage examples of glyph.

The toggle must have been set for DNA mode, since the buttons were displaying the Neanderthal glyphs for adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine.

Iroy scanned the letter, running a hennaed thumbnail over the glyphs as he read.

There were signs of recent erasure and redraw- ing at many spots, and here and there little colored hiero- glyphs of mysterious import.

She cocked her arms and hands into the pose of an Egyptian hiero- glyph.

Blood sniffed around the stones, poked his muzzle toward the glyph, jerked away when Karn slapped him with the rod.

For a moment, he hoped that he had kithed ideoplasts wrongly, and so he stared at the glittering glyphs until his eyes burned and there could be no mistaking their meaning.

They bear a little box of orichalc covered with strange glyphs, and they would not tell me what was in it.

We had descended perhaps a hundred steps when we reached a door painted with a crimson teratoid sign that appeared to me to be a glyph from some tongue beyond the shores of Urth.

Their leader, a mighty orc almost twice as tall as the sort of tusker Alusair was used to slaying in the Stonelands, whose much-battered breastplate was studded with grinning human skulls, was grinning at her as one large, grubby finger rubbed along the glyphs of the largest tainted tree Alusair had yet seen.

The hidden panel leading to the stairs up to his rooms appeared untampered with from the outside but opening it, he found that the warding glyph at the base of the stairs had been tripped.

I can translate the ancient Vindo and Tentur glyphs, given access to my books.

On the job, where hardcopy now-do-this instructions were of essence, boppers used zeroes-and-ones machine language supplemented by a high-speed metalanguage of glyphs and macros.

Lucien has been taught the glyph of a profiled wheelchair with an enormous bone-crossed skull below.

It was bound about with bands of red gold and dark steel, incised with ancient Valyrian glyphs that seemed to glow redly as the sound swelled.

Her lithe muscular body bore the magical marks of ritual scarification, patterning her exquisite golden skin into complex silver and blue whorls and glyphs.