pictograph
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- noun
- /ˈpɪk.təˌgræf/
- Specialized
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pictograma
- The ancient cave walls were adorned with beautiful pictographs that depicted daily life.
Examples
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Think of the native history we could fill in once these pictographs have been deciphered.
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After years of evolution, ancient pictographs were simplified and stylized.
Academic text (2013) -
You can have a look at them, see what you make of the pictographs.
Fiction book (2002) -
The images are Persian pictographs.
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This pictograph represents Sankara, a priest.
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The first form of writing in Chinese culture was pictographs, which are icons or pictures that were developed to represent objects and events.
Academic text (2013) -
If pictures were to be defined by their commonest examples, those examples would be pictographs, not paintings.
Academic text (1995) -
Reman is a most complex language with pictographs representing certain verb roots...
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The earliest documented use of wheels exists in the form of pictographs on clay tablets from Uruk.
Academic text (2004) -
Its towering walls are covered with North America's largest concentration of petroglyphs and pictographs.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
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A simple picture that shows a word, idea or object on signs and maps
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A written sign that shows an idea or thing instead of a word
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A written symbol that stands for a whole word or phrase
A written sign that stands for a whole word or short phrase
How Pictorial
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pictograph starts with the parts pict- and -graph, which mean 'painted' and 'write' and are like the words picture and graph. So a pictograph is 'picture writing', a simple picture used as a symbol to stand for a word or idea.