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A pictographic traffic sign (top) warning motorists of horses and riders. 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.
In logographic writing systems, glyphs represent words or morphemes (meaningful components of words, as in mean-ing-ful) rather than phonetic elements. No logographic script is composed solely of logograms. All contain graphemes that represent phonetic (sound-based) elements as well.
Pictographic writing system for messenging International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Latn: 1888–* International Phonetic Association: Regarded as being an extension of the Latin script: Ithkuil: 2004: John Quijada: Script for the constructed Ithkuil language Jurchen: Jurc: ca. 1119: Wanyan Xiyin: Largely undeciphered logographic script with ...
The Dongba script appears to be an independent ancient writing system, though presumably it was created in the environment of older scripts. According to Dongba religious fables, the Dongba script was created by the founder of the Bön religious tradition of Tibet, Tönpa Shenrab (Tibetan: ston pa gshen rab) or Shenrab Miwo (Tibetan: gshen rab mi bo), [3] while traditional Naxi genealogies ...
The Dongba Manuscript is the main source for studying the Naxi writing system. The Naxi writing system, consisting of both pictographic Dongba symbols and phonographic Geba symbols, is unique in that it exists in a buffering state of transition from drawings to formal writing, resulting in an intriguing hybrid of both, rather than solely pictographic or phonographic as some scholars may ...
Oracle bone script is the direct ancestor of modern written Chinese, and is already a mature writing system in its earliest attestation. Roughly one-quarter of oracle bone script characters are pictographs, with rest either being phono-semantic compounds or compound ideographs.
A computer network diagram is a schematic depicting the nodes and connections amongst nodes in a computer network or, more generally, any telecommunications network. Computer network diagrams form an important part of network documentation.
Developing around the same time, the Egyptian system of hieroglyphics also began as a pictographic script and evolved into a system of syllabic writing. Two cursive scripts were eventually created, hieratic , shortly after hieroglyphs were invented, and demotic (Egyptian) in the seventh century BC. [ 4 ]