ideograph
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
Japanese propagandists would soon have their own ideograph for the precise, mild-mannered Pennsylvania Dutchman who is impatient to get the war over so he can go sailboating.
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
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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