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pictographic

/ˌpɪktəˈɡɹæfɪk/

pictographic adjective: represented by pictures.

Adjective

pictographic (not comparable)

  1. Represented by pictures.
  2. Of or pertaining to pictographs.

Noun

pictographic (plural pictographics)

  1. A pictograph or hieroglyph.
    • Only two words in English possess a bare minimum resemblance to that of pictographics: eye (two es are the eyes, and the y is the nose) and bed (two vertical strokes from b and d compose the frame of the bed).1991, Timothy D. Huang, Jack K. T. Huang, An Introduction To Chinese, Japanese And Korean Computing, page 44

Forms of pictographic

pluralpictographics

Origin of pictographic

From pictograph + -ic.

Words formed from pictographic

Questions about pictographic

What does pictographic mean?
Pictographic means represented by pictures.
What part of speech is pictographic?
Pictographic can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce pictographic?
Pictographic is pronounced /ˌpɪktəˈɡɹæfɪk/.

Words near pictographic in the dictionary

  1. pictogrammatically
  2. pictogramme
  3. pictogrammes
  4. pictograms
  5. pictograph
  6. pictographic
  7. pictographical
  8. pictographically
  9. pictographics
  10. pictographs
  11. pictography

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