The Characteristics of Hieroglyphs

The characteristics of hieroglyphs are that they have multiple meanings, there are signs as well as symbols. They essentially proliferate, you know, the old kingdom, some 3000 BC had, I want to say about 100 or 150. The Persians invaded two and a half thousand years later with thousands of Hieroglyphs. So what does it mean to be a human being? What does it means to implement a human being in quotation marks?