Other forms: glyphs
A glyph is a carved symbol standing for a word or a sound. Maya glyphs, read the glyphs, a carved glyph.
In typography it means something precise: a glyph is one drawn shape, while a character is the letter it stands for, so a font may hold several glyphs for one character. The Greek behind it means a carving.
1nounglyphA carved symbol standing for a word or a sound.
“Archaeologists spent years deciphering the glyphs carved on the Mayan temple.”
glyph is a symbol.
French glyphe comes from Greek glyphe, a carving, from glyphein, to carve.
Ancient Greek
γλυφή — carving
French
glyphe
English, today
glyph
Built from
First attested in 1727. French glyphe, from Ancient Greek γλυφή (“carving”), from γλύφω (“I carve, engrave”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA