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pictographic

/pik-tuh-graf, -grahf/US // ˈpɪk təˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf //UK // (ˈpɪktəˌɡrɑːf, -ˌɡræf) //

象形文字,图形化,象形的,象形

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a pictorial sign or symbol.
    • : a record consisting of pictorial symbols, as a prehistoric cave drawing or a graph or chart with symbolic figures representing a certain number of people, cars, factories, etc.

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Examples

  • Neither do his pictographic dramas have any resemblance to the covers from which his characters hail.

  • It was pictographic and showed a man leading a pack-horse along a white road to a wigwam.

  • A pictographic painting--the Coat of Arms of the great family of Shewish hung upon the wall.

  • The figure at the base of the pictographic painting represents the mammoth whale upon whose back the whole creation rests.

  • The centre figure in the pictographic painting is a wolf grotesquely drawn.

  • Pictographic writing, which is so well known among the Micmacs, was also practised by the Passamaquoddies.