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
Note: The words “*innocent face*” were not a true pictographic emoji.
From Slate • Nov. 26, 2019
With their intricate pictographic texts, Ekpuk’s paintings can spin the viewer’s eye in multiple directions at once.
From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2018
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
