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  • noun Plural form of pictograph..

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Examples

  • So to see it displayed in languages that are a little like pictographs is interesting.

    Your Name in 5 Different Scripts 2007

  • Unlike English, whose words are created from the 26 letters in the alphabet, each Chinese word is represented by a unique grouping of "pictographs," or characters, drawn with graceful, calligraphic-looking pen strokes.

    Home News Tribune - News 2008

  • Unlike English, whose words are created from the 26 letters in the alphabet, each Chinese word is represented by a unique grouping of "pictographs," or characters, drawn with graceful, calligraphic-looking pen strokes.

    Home News Tribune - News 2008

  • Some pages don't so much contain writing as words arranged into images and pictographs.

    Performing Its Own Self 2010

  • Some pages don't so much contain writing as words arranged into images and pictographs.

    Experimental Fiction 2010

  • They developed complex symbols (hieroglyphs) for place names that used combinations of up to three different kinds of elements: pictographs, ideographs and phonetic symbols.

    Mexico's place names and their meanings 2009

  • Beneath a wall of pictographs, depicting ibex and Buddhist temples, we make camp.

    Richard Bangs: The Pakistan Osama bin Laden Never Knew, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011

  • North of the interstate, the Swell contains such scenic attractions as Buckhorn Wash home to some dramatic sandstone walls and well preserved pictographs, Mexican Mountain and the Little Grand Canyon, a dramatic stretch of the San Rafael River that cuts a deep swath through the Swell itself.

    Todd Hartley: The Wide, Wide West: Utah's San Rafael Swell Todd Hartley 2011

  • Beneath a wall of pictographs, depicting ibex and Buddhist temples, we make camp.

    Richard Bangs: The Pakistan Osama bin Laden Never Knew, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011

  • He worked for years on the tablet, deciphering the pictographs.

    The Ladder 2010

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