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
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
On the hooves of its near forefoot and hind- foot was the ideograph “to fly.”
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
Vocabulary lists containing ideograph
East Asia - Middle School
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East Asia - Introductory
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East Asia - High School
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