pictograph
/ˈpɪktəʊgrɑːf/(亦作pictogram)
noun
1- a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase. Pictographs were used as the earliest known form of writing, examples having been discovered in Egypt and Mesopotamia from before 3000 BC.图画文字, 象形文字（迄今已知的最早的文字形式, 公元前3000年以前埃及和美索不达米亚地区曾使用这样的文字）。
1.1
- a pictorial representation of statistics on a chart, graph, or computer screen统计图表, 象形图。
派生词
pictographic
adjectivepictography
noun词源
mid 19th cent.: from Latin pict- 'painted' （from the verb pingere） + -GRAPH.