ideograph

Example Sentences

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So very early on, it was very obvious in “The Lion King” that the circle is the ideograph: The Circle of Life.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2022

The ideograph, in Japanese brush painting, is finding “How do you do a whole bamboo forest in three brush strokes?”

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2022

I looked for what I call an ideograph, which is to take the entire concept of the story—a road movie, what is that?

From Slate • Sep. 30, 2020

Franz Kline's huge black-on-white compositions showed no more sophistication than a Chinese ideograph, but they conveyed the energy of the man that made them�and commanded a whole wall rather than a corner of a scroll.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the brush drawings it looks like the ideograph for “human,” two black wings.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston