pictograph
noun
a pictorial sign or symbol.
pictographic
-
a word derived from
pictograph.
Example Sentences
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In Klee’s final years, he distilled line, color, sign and plane into a shorthand, pictographic language that, uniquely his own, achieved new urgency, freedom and monumentality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
On a map of the New World, Baniwa crosses out European place names and replaces Western pictographic symbolics with Indigenous ones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2022
Emojis may just be the latest manifestation in a long history of pictographic writing and signage, from prehistoric cave painting to advertising logos.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2020
Television is adopting the pictographic one-liner format, but can this multimedia black hole go much deeper?
From Slate ● May 29, 2019
If so, the writing could not be fundamentally pictographic or metaphorical; rather, most of the symbols must stand for letters or syllables.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
