pictograph
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Together, the roof and the tower give the chapel a beguiling silhouette that can suggest anything from a giant pictograph to an abstract sculpture.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
More specifically, because I read some signs, I can tell you that the petroglyphs are more than 2,000 years old, and also that a petroglyph is cut into stone; a pictograph is painted on stone.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2024
I’ve lost my appetite for cricket, so I tap on the pictograph of a lab-generated wrap produced from plant cells and lamb genes, then scan my hand.
From Slate • Feb. 26, 2022
The letter has no connection to the Chinese name “Xi,” which is a Latin-alphabet representation of a pictograph that is pronounced like the English feminine pronoun “she.”
From Washington Times • Dec. 10, 2021
Following the pictograph is the ideograph, which is but one more step in the progress of systematic writing.
From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)
Vocabulary lists containing pictograph
Write On!: Graph and Gram
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Mesopotamia - Introductory
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Early Civilizations of China, Lessons 1–3
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