Due to the increased popularity of oriental culture, various characters are increasingly used in decoration and design. But when buying, for example, a mug with a Chinese symbol, you may want to know its meaning. This can be done even if you do not know the appropriate language.
You will need
- dictionary of hieroglyphs.
Instruction manual
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Determine which language the character you are interested in refers to. Most often, Chinese characters are used in the design. Their difference is that they easily fit into a square. These characters should not be confused with the Korean syllabic letter, which has a more simplified form - the letter in it consists of only a few elements. In turn, Egyptian hieroglyphs are more similar to pictograms, that is, closer in appearance to the objects that they designate.
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Buy or take a dictionary of hieroglyphs from the library. You can also use various online directories. But before that, check if software that supports reading hieroglyphs is installed on your computer.
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Find out the principle of classification of characters in the dictionary. Usually they are systematized according to their keys. Structurally, the hieroglyph in most cases consists of two elements - the key responsible for its semantic content, and phonetics. helping to understand its reading. Often the keys are part of the hieroglyph in an altered form, so it can be difficult to find them.
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Having defined the hieroglyph key, open the corresponding section of the dictionary and find in it the image of the character you are interested in. next to it will be a reading of the character, as well as its translation. Keep in mind that often a word does not consist of one character. but from their combination. Therefore, to understand the meaning, it will be necessary to correctly divide the group of hieroglyphs into words, which can be problematic - spaces in sentences in Chinese and Japanese are not put.
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If you need to decipher the meaning of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyph, refer to the special Egyptological literature. Special sites with dictionaries of the simplest signs of the ancient Egyptian language can also help you -
note
As a rule, these are Chinese characters. But you need to not only write a hieroglyph, but it would not be bad at all to write them competently. Drawing a character in our culture and language group is comparable to drawing a runic symbol. Therefore, I propose to consider the meanings of some Chinese characters - symbols used since the "Book of Changes".
Useful advice
Hieroglyphs in Feng Shui is a system of conditional ancient Chinese characters containing a certain semantic meaning. Among the many reinforcing elements, such as favorable numbers, verbal wishes, Feng Shui characters are the most symbolic and effective. The meaning of hieroglyphs. The hieroglyph "Dragon" personifies power and extraordinary power, patronizes business and your family.
