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
- : 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.
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