pictographs

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Scope note
Highly simplified or conventionalized pictures that stand for the thing pictured; may be used as writing signs corresponding to individual words or phonetic elements in a language. Often extended to describe prehistoric pictures or linear designs that are painted on living rock.
pictographs
Accepted term: 09-Mar-2026