pictogram

English

Alternative forms

• pictogramme (rare)

Noun

A knife-and-fork pictogram is used in North American highway signage to represent a food vendor.

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. Casually, pictogram is used to represent all of these: it is a picture representing some concept.

Synonyms

• pictograph
• hieroglyph

Related terms

• emoji
• ideogram
• logogram

Translations

picture that represents a word or an idea

• Catalan: pictograma (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 象形 (zh) (xiàngxíng)

• Danish: piktogram n
• Estonian: piktogramm
• Finnish: piktogrammi (fi)
• French: pictogramme (fr) m
• Galician: pictograma (gl) m
• German: Piktogramm (de) n
• Greek: εικονόγραμμα (el) n (eikonógramma), εικονοσύμβολο (el) n (eikonosýmvolo)
• Hungarian: piktogram (hu)
• Ido: piktogramo (io)
• Italian: pittogramma (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 象形 (ja) (shōkei)
• Korean: 그림문자 (ko) (geurimmunja)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: piktogram (no) n

  Nynorsk: piktogram n

• Polish: piktogram (pl) m
• Portuguese: pictograma m
• Russian: пиктогра́мма (ru) f (piktográmma)
• Slovene: piktogram m
• Spanish: pictograma (es) m
• Swedish: piktogram n
• Turkish: resim yazı (tr), resimli çizenek

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Pronunciation

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Noun

pictogram n (plural pictogrammen, diminutive pictogrammetje n)

1. pictogram
2. (graphical user interface) icon

Synonyms

• (icon): icoon