> ancient Egyptian in that he tried to create a different symbol for each word This is not how Egyptian hieroglyphs worked. An common example 𓉐𓂋𓂻 - pr (v)

> ancient Egyptian in that he tried to create a different symbol for each word This is not how Egyptian hieroglyphs worked. An common example 𓉐𓂋𓂻 - pr (v) - to leave 𓉐 is a house. It represents, here, the sound pr, which is the Egyptian word for house. 𓂋 is a mouth. It represents the r sound. Here, it's being used as a phonetic complement to emphasize that we're spelling a word here and not talking about a house. 𓂻 is a pair of legs. It's being used as a determinative to tell you the word has something to do with walking.