Egyptian hieroglyphs
Writing system
Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with more than 100 distinct characters. Cursive hieroglyphs were used... Wikipedia
Child systems: Hieratic; Proto-Sinaitic
Direction: Right-to-left, left-to-right
ISO 15924: Egyp (050), Egyptian hieroglyphs
Languages: Egyptian language
Unicode range: U+13000–U+1342F Hieroglyphs; U+13430–U+1343F Controls