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Ideographic vs Pictogram - What's the difference?

ideographic | pictogram |

As an adjective ideographic

is pertaining to an ideograph or ideography.

As a noun pictogram is

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

ideographic

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Pertaining to an ideograph or ideography.

    • pictogram

    English

    (wikipedia pictogram)

    Alternative forms

    * pictogramme (rare)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    Synonyms

    * pictograph * hieroglyph

    Related terms

    * ideogram * logogram ----