glyph

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
glyph /glɪf/

▶noun

• 1 a pictograph or sculptured symbol; a hieroglyph.

• 2 Architecture an ornamental carved groove or channel, as on a Greek frieze.

• 3 Computing a small graphic symbol.

– derivatives
glyphic adjective.

– origin C18: from Fr. glyphe, from Gk gluphē ‘carving’.