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
So very early on, it was very obvious in “The Lion King” that the circle is the ideograph: The Circle of Life.
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
To operate the machine, a typist must memorize 5,400 combinations of four numbers each; every combination represents a Chinese word or ideograph.
From Time Magazine Archive
She showed her how family clothes were marked with the ideograph “middle,” which is a box with a line through its center.
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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