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pictograph

[pik-tuh-graf, -grahf] / ˈpɪk təˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf /


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Together, the roof and the tower give the chapel a beguiling silhouette that can suggest anything from a giant pictograph to an abstract sculpture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

More specifically, because I read some signs, I can tell you that the petroglyphs are more than 2,000 years old, and also that a petroglyph is cut into stone; a pictograph is painted on stone.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2024

I’ve lost my appetite for cricket, so I tap on the pictograph of a lab-generated wrap produced from plant cells and lamb genes, then scan my hand.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2022

The letter has no connection to the Chinese name “Xi,” which is a Latin-alphabet representation of a pictograph that is pronounced like the English feminine pronoun “she.”

From Washington Times • Dec. 10, 2021

But de Lacouperie has shown that this view is a mistake, and that the evolution from the pictograph to the phonetic symbol had been practically completed in China many centuries before the new era.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court




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