他猜测象形文字是语音符号是正确的，它们代表的是声音而不是图像。
He suspected rightly that the hieroglyphs were phonetic symbols, that they represented its sounds rather than pictures.
头两个符号是未知的，但商博良知道，在最右边重复出现的象形文字代表“S”的声音。
The first two of these symbols were unknown, but Champollion knew that the repeated hieroglyphs to the far-right symbolized an "S" sound.
象形文字主要是语音符号；它们代表的是声音，而不是图像，其本质上的语言是科普特语。
Hieroglyphs were mainly phonetic; they represented sounds, not pictures, and the underlying language was Coptic.
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