pictographic
Example Sentences
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In the 1940s, Lam developed his own distinctive, hybrid figures, pictographic language and pictorial style.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026
On a map of the New World, Baniwa crosses out European place names and replaces Western pictographic symbolics with Indigenous ones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2022
“She has created a monument to living architecture, carved exquisitely with a pictographic vernacular that meshes ancient hieroglyphs with the visual motifs of her home and community.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
Note: The words “*innocent face*” were not a true pictographic emoji.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2019
If so, the writing could not be fundamentally pictographic or metaphorical; rather, most of the symbols must stand for letters or syllables.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
