Ancient Egyptian pattern characteristics

The evolution of the shape of the ancient Egyptian script can be divided into four stages: 1, hieroglyphic: the earliest composition system we know of the ancient Egyptian writing material, is hieroglyphic, this writing system arose in 3000 BC. 2, the ritual body of the text: for the sake of practicality and convenience, the scribe and the shape of hieroglyphic symbols to simplify the shape of the symbols to create the ritual body of the text. 3, the secular body of the script: it is the the cursive form of the ritual script. In contrast to the ritual script, the secular script is simpler in the form of continuous writing and is no longer characterized by pictures; its writing direction retains the tradition of the ritual script. Fixed from right to left. 4, Coptic script: it is the last stage of the development of the ancient Egyptian script, y influenced by Greek and biblical literature.

The Egyptian script consists of three parts: ideograms, epigraphs and qualifying symbols.

Epigraphic symbols are graphic representations of the meaning of words, characterized by a close relationship between the graphic and the meaning of the word. For example, to represent water, a wave-shaped line ≈, a five-pointed star "★" represents the concept of "star".

The phonetic symbols are used to express the pronunciation of the words and obtain the phonetic value. For example: the graphic of an owl used as a musical note, read [m] sound, has lost the meaning of "owl". The graphic symbol for a latch represents the

sound, while another symbol for a hill is used to represent the [k] sound.

A qualifying symbol is a new purely ideographic graphic symbol added to the epenthetic symbols and placed at the end of a word to indicate the category of things to which the word belongs. The qualifier itself is not pronounced. For example, in hieroglyphics, the two words "plow stick" and "Zhu Zhu" have the same phonetic symbols, both consisting of two consonants, pronounced hb. The way to distinguish the meaning of the words is to add the symbols "plow stick" and "Zhu Zhu" after hb. The way to distinguish the meanings of words is to add the qualifying symbols for "plow stick" and "vulture" after hb respectively. The appropriate combination of ideograms, phonetic symbols and qualifying symbols can form a complete sentence. (I hope you're satisfied o(∩_∩)o~)