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 way I do drought is it’s a big circle of fabric, and the drought is symbolized by the most simple, reduced ideograph of pulling that circle through the floor hole.

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

Investigators found there incendiary bomb fragments with Japanese ideograph markings.

From Time Magazine Archive

She showed her how family clothes were marked with the ideograph “middle,” which is a box with a line through its center.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston