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

The way I do drought is it’s a big circle of fabric, and the drought is symbolized by the most simple, reduced ideograph of pulling that circle through the floor hole.

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

Investigators found there incendiary bomb fragments with Japanese ideograph markings.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the brush drawings it looks like the ideograph for “human,” two black wings.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston