ideograph

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

Behind her on the crowded stage spread a vast grey-blue cloth backdrop, on which was emblazoned a huge red Chinese ideograph meaning victory.

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