ideograph

The ideograph, in Japanese brush painting, is finding “How do you do a whole bamboo forest in three brush strokes?”

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.

So very early on, it was very obvious in “The Lion King” that the circle is the ideograph: The Circle of Life.

The Chinese ideograph for the female “I,” Maxine Kingston says, means slave.

I looked for what I call an ideograph, which is to take the entire concept of the story—a road movie, what is that?