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pictograph

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


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Several years ago, I came across a pictograph depicting “A 100-Year Human Life in Months.”

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 4, 2025

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

And the common pictograph to represent the Arikara among all the surrounding tribes was a conventionalised ear of corn.

From A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by Helleberg, C. G. (Carl Gustaf)




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