pictographic

English

Etymology

From pictograph +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɪktəˈɡɹæfɪk/

Adjective

pictographic (not comparable)

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

Noun

pictographic (plural pictographics)

1. A pictograph or hieroglyph.
   • 1991, Timothy D. Huang, Jack K. T. Huang, An Introduction To Chinese, Japanese And Korean Computing, page 44:

     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).