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
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
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
I walked putting heel down first, toes pointing outward thirty to forty degrees, making the ideograph “eight,” making the ideograph “human.”
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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