AGE
13+
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A quiz to reinforce your knowledge of the pronunciation and meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs
Supports coursework for City Lit course RBMC12 "Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: an introduction for beginners at the British Museum"
Based on the signs listed in Gardiner's "Egyptian Grammar" third edition, Unicode and the Leiden Unified transliteration standard
Easy, intermediate and advanced quiz levels
Uniliteral, biliteral, triliteral, determinative and number quiz options
Gardiner sign list showing pronunciation, meaning and what each sign depicts
Search for hieroglyphs, by any of
- what a sign depicts, like sandal
- what a sign means, like life
- a pronunciation, like ankh
- a transliteration, like ߵnḫ
- an MdC mnemonic, like anx
- a Gardiner sign reference, like S34
- a Unicode character, like 𓋹
- a Unicode codepoint, like U132F9
- signs containing a symbol, like glyphs that depict a ruler holding a 𓋹 (a "part of" search)
Glyph quiz app screenshots
Keyboard
Installing Glyph Quiz also installs a simple hieroglyph keyboard with phonetic symbols that can help you search for hieroglyphs
- Open Settings
- Select General > Keyboard > Keyboards
- Select Add New Keyboard
- In Third-Party Keyboards, select Keyboard - Glyph Quiz
- In your app, start to type then press and hold the globe keyboard key to list available keyboards