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n what way are ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs different from letters in the English alphabet?

Hieroglyphs represent sounds.
Hieroglyphs are used in other languages.
Hieroglyphs convey meaning through pictures.
Hieroglyphs are combined to build words.

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"Hieroglyphs convey meaning through pictures."

Unlike English letters, which are abstract symbols that mainly represent sounds (phonemes), many Egyptian hieroglyphs are pictorial and can stand for whole words/ideas (logograms) or act as determinatives that show the meaning of a word, as well as sometimes representing sounds.