ideograph

Example Sentences

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These imaginary ideographs sometimes incorporated snippets of streamlined nature imagery from Green’s black-and-white paintings and were generally rendered in black on a single-hued background.

From Washington Post

“The emoji themselves are ideographs, one of the most ancient ways to communicate,” she said.

From New York Times

“But at the same time, the emoji themselves are ideographs, one of the most ancient ways to communicate. I love how the centuries are connected in that way.”

From New York Times

Texted communication is in the process of turning written English communication from a logical language of phonetic word depictions, to a series of ideographs.

From New York Times

The small, bone white beads that made up the bulk of her wrist and neck strings, as well as those of her fellow mages, were etched with miniscule ideographs.

From Time