Pictography
A pictogram, also called a pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto, and in computer usage an icon, is a graphic Graphics () are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone, to inform, illustrate, or entertain. In contemporary usage, it includes a pictorial representation of data, as in design and manufacture, ... symbol that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object. Pictographs are often used in writing and graphic systems in which the characters are to a considerable extent pictorial in appearance. A pictogram may also be used in subjects such as leisure, tourism, and geography. Pictography is a form of Writing system, writing which uses representational, pictorial drawings, similarly to cuneiform and, to some extent, Hieroglyph, hieroglyphic writing, which also uses drawings as phonetic letters or determinative rhymes. Some pictograms, such as GHS hazard pictograms, Hazards pictograms, are e ...
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