pictogram

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Alternative forms

• pictogramme (rare)

Noun

pictogram (plural pictograms)

1. A picture that represents a word or an idea by illustration.

Usage notes

Strictly speaking, a pictogram represents by illustration, an ideogram represents an idea, and a logogram represents a word: Chinese characters are all logograms, but few are pictograms or ideograms. Casually, pictogram is used to represent all of these: it is a picture representing some concept.

Translations

picture that represents a word or an idea

• Catalan: pictograma (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 象形 (cmn) (xiàngxíng)

• Finnish: piktogrammi (fi)
• French: pictogramme (fr) m
• Galician: pictograma (gl) m
• German: Piktogramm (de) n
• Hungarian: képjel (hu)

• Japanese: 象形 (ja) (shōkei)
• Norwegian: piktogram (no) n
• Polish: piktogram (pl) m
• Russian: пиктограмма (ru) (piktográmma) f
• Spanish: pictograma (es) m
• Swedish: piktogram (sv) n
• Turkish: resim yazı (tr), resimli çizenek (tr)

Synonyms

• pictograph
• hieroglyph

Related terms

• ideogram
• logogram

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Dutch

Noun

pictogram n (plural pictogrammen, diminutive pictogrammetje)

1. pictogram
2. (graphical user interface) icon

Synonyms

• (icon): icoon