pictography

[ pik-tog-ruh-fee ]

noun

1. the use of pictographs; picture writing.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pictography¹

1850–55; pictograph + -y ³; -graphy

Example Sentences

His contemporary, geographer and ethnologist Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, called it “dental pictography.”

From Washington Post

As to whether all this persuasion was causal or merely decorative, I have advocated a perspective: Events are seldom inherently deterministic and they have to be “sold,” their meanings made vivid, via all the gathered powers of eloquence or pictography—whether by Marat in the French Revolution, Lenin in the Russian, or Churchill in 1940.

From Slate

The decision to standardise toilet pictography is the latest attempt to make Japan’s toilets more user friendly.

From The Guardian

At a launch event this week, the firms said they had agreed to simplify the pictography in response to complaints from tourists that they are confused by symbols that differ depending on the make of toilet.

From The Guardian

He originated all things, through the instrumentality of the tortoise, which, in Algonquin pictography, was the symbol of the earth.

From Project Gutenberg