1
There are nearly two hundred syllabic signs, much alike and easy to confuse.
2
Such syllabic signs may be used either singly, as above, or in combination, as illustrated below.
3
Thus in practice there are found in the hieroglyphics the strangest combinations of ideographs, syllabic signs, and alphabetical signs or true letters used together indiscriminately.
4
He initially devised 200 syllabic signs and gradually reduced them to 85, most of them for combinations of one consonant and one vowel.