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Hieroglyphs can be categorised in many different ways, such as grouping them into animals, birds and parts of their bodies, humans and parts of their bodies, small signs, tall signs, signs depicting plants and so on.

In linguistic terms the hieroglyphic signs may be grouped as follows:

  • single consonant signs (such as a hand for d)
  • two consonant signs (such as the basket for nb)
  • three consonant signs (such as the star for dw3)
  • ideograms (such as a standing man with arms raised before him for "praise" or a mouth for "mouth")
  • determinatives (such as the papyrus roll) which have no sound value and only serve to help classify words into their general meaning.

There therefore 5 categories of hieroglyphs using this system.

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