Highly simplified or conventionalized pictures that stand for the thing pictured; may be used as writing signs corresponding to individual words or phonetic elements in a language. Use also for certain prehistoric pictures and linear designs whose meanings are uncertain.
AAT
3000124411
pictograms
pictographic scripts
pictographic signs
pictographic writing
pictography
pictorial signs
picture signs
picture writing
picture-signs
picture-writing
scripts, pictographic
signs, pictographic
signs, picture
writing, pictographic
writing, picture
12yrs ago
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