Pictograph
['pɪktəgrɑːf] or ['pɪktoɡræf]
Definition
(n.) A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.
Inputed by Carter
Examples
- For example, the pictograph for mouth combined with pictograph for vapour expressed words. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That would be a pictograph. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In Chinese writing there are still traceable a number of pictographs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By combining these pictographs, a second order of ideas is expressed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They got very soon to the Chinese pictographs, ideographs, and phonograms, and beyond them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One may perhaps make this development of pictographs, ideographs, and phonograms a little clearer by taking an analogous case in English. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Wanda