Значения термина syllabic signs на английском

There are nearly two hundred syllabic signs, much alike and easy to confuse.

Such syllabic signs may be used either singly, as above, or in combination, as illustrated below.

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.

He initially devised 200 syllabic signs and gradually reduced them to 85, most of them for combinations of one consonant and one vowel.