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pictography

/pik-tog-ruh-fee/US // pɪkˈtɒg rə fi //

象形文字,象形文字学,图画学,图画艺术

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the use of pictographs; picture writing.

Examples

  • Pictography here records, that certain clans had killed bears and taken human scalps before that time.

  • A comparison of the three justifies the assertion that the Kiowa have a recognized system of calendar pictography.

  • Hence the name pictography which some scholars apply to this primitive form of writing.

  • According to John Tanner, the symbol for the lightning in Ojibway pictography was a rattlesnake.

  • It is a very old symbol, and is frequently found with the same meaning in cliff-houses and in ancient pictography.