pictograph
noun
a pictorial sign or symbol.
pictographic
-
a word derived from
pictograph.
Example Sentences
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The chronological installation begins with Evans’s first two pen-and-ink drawings from about 1935: abstract radiating eyes, spirals, zigzags and squiggles—feverish doodles resembling ancient pictographic narratives set down in a trance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 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
Note: The words “*innocent face*” were not a true pictographic emoji.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2019
Let’s just hope he finishes “Rusty Brown,” with all its pictographic poetry and transdimensional metaphysics, before 2037 rolls around.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 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
