pictogram

English

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

Alternative forms

pictogramme (rare)

Etymology

picture +‎ -gram.

Noun

pictogram (plural pictograms)

A picture that represents a word or an idea by illustration.
Synonyms: pictograph, hieroglyph

Coordinate terms: ideogram, logogram

Usage notes

A pictogram represents by illustration a word or idea. An ideogram represents only an idea, and a logogram represents only a word.

Synonyms

Related terms

Translations

picture that represents a word or an idea

Bulgarian: пиктограма (bg) f (piktograma)
Catalan: pictograma (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 象形 (zh) (xiàngxíng)
Danish: piktogram n
Dutch: pictogram (nl) 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)
Indonesian: piktogram (id)
Italian: pittogramma (it) m
Japanese: 象形 (ja) (shōkei), ピクトグラム (ja)
Korean: 그림문자 (ko) (geurimmunja)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: piktogram (no) n

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

Further reading

pictogram on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

pictogram n (plural pictogrammen, diminutive pictogrammetje n)

Synonyms

(icon): icoon

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