pictographic

Examples

• All

• Then one day, the team discovered a storehouse near the city gate that contained hundreds of delicate and fragmentary clay seal impressions with pictographic images.

  Academic text (2008)

• Therefore, some characters strongly retain their pictographic roots, while most other characters are only partially ideographic.

  Academic text (2006)

• The Egyptian hieroglyphs were a pictographic form of writing.

  Academic text (2007)

• The first version of Bamum contained more than 400 pictographic and ideographic characters.

  Academic text (2007)

• Lakota "winter counts," or pictographic calendars, document a similar chronology for the appearance of flags on the Northern Plains.

  Academic text (2002)

• Without the belt's accompanying discourse, the historian would simply examine an expressive object, rich in color and pictographic symbolism but lacking in elaboration.

  Academic text (2007)

• The development of a strong tradition of pictorial documents after the conquest in New Spain was also informed by the preexisting Mesoamerican tradition of using pictographic writing to address some of the same (religious, political, social) matters.

  Academic text (2012)

• The Egyptian hieroglyphs were a pictographic form of writing.

• Ancient cultures often used pictographic symbols to convey messages.

• The museum displayed a pictographic representation of a historical event.

Synonyms

P

pictorial

vspictographic

4 4.9

That is shown with pictures like photos and drawings

emphasizes specific visual symbols instead of broad illustrations

P

pictural

vspictographic

8.2

Using pictures like drawings or photos to show something

focuses on use of specific visual symbols rather than general images

How Pictorial

pictographic

1 7.9

pictorial

4 4.9

illustrative

20 4.6

descriptive

28 4.0

textual

12 4.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology