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A pictogram (also pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto [1]) is a graphical symbol that conveys meaning through its visual resemblance to a physical object. Pictograms are used in systems of writing and visual communication.
A pictograph (also called pictogram or pictogramme) is an ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
For example, in 1999 the Red Cross informed Ultimate Symbol that their 1996 publication Official Signs & Icons, featuring various symbol collections, that the Red Cross in the AIGA pictogram collection was a violation of the Geneva Convention and United States trademark laws, and asked for its removal from future editions.
Generally, with the evolution of the script, the forms of pictographs became less directly representational, to the extent that their referents are no longer plausible to intuit. Examples include 田 'field'，and 心 'heart'. Indicatives (指事字 zhǐshìzì) like 上 'up' and 下 'down', or numerals like 三 'three'.
As an example, a verb 'to wash oneself' is pronounced mù, which happens be homophonous with 'tree', which was written with the pictograph 木. The verb mù could have simply been written 木 , but to disambiguate it was compounded with the character for 'water', which gives some idea of the word's meaning.
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