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- noun Plural form of
pictograph ..
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Examples
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So to see it displayed in languages that are a little like pictographs is interesting.
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Unlike English, whose words are created from the 26 letters in the alphabet, each Chinese word is represented by a unique grouping of "pictographs," or characters, drawn with graceful, calligraphic-looking pen strokes.
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Unlike English, whose words are created from the 26 letters in the alphabet, each Chinese word is represented by a unique grouping of "pictographs," or characters, drawn with graceful, calligraphic-looking pen strokes.
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Some pages don't so much contain writing as words arranged into images and pictographs.
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Some pages don't so much contain writing as words arranged into images and pictographs.
Experimental Fiction 2010
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They developed complex symbols (hieroglyphs) for place names that used combinations of up to three different kinds of elements: pictographs, ideographs and phonetic symbols.
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Beneath a wall of pictographs, depicting ibex and Buddhist temples, we make camp.
Richard Bangs: The Pakistan Osama bin Laden Never Knew, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011
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North of the interstate, the Swell contains such scenic attractions as Buckhorn Wash home to some dramatic sandstone walls and well preserved pictographs, Mexican Mountain and the Little Grand Canyon, a dramatic stretch of the San Rafael River that cuts a deep swath through the Swell itself.
Todd Hartley: The Wide, Wide West: Utah's San Rafael Swell Todd Hartley 2011
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Beneath a wall of pictographs, depicting ibex and Buddhist temples, we make camp.
Richard Bangs: The Pakistan Osama bin Laden Never Knew, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011
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He worked for years on the tablet, deciphering the pictographs.
The Ladder 2010
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