pictogram

English

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

Alternative forms

• pictogramme (rare)

Etymology

From picture +‎ -gram.

Noun

pictogram (plural pictograms)

1. 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

• pictograph
• hieroglyph

Related terms

• emoji
• ideogram
• logogram

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) (pikutoguramu) Korean: 상형 (ko) (sanghyeong), 픽토그램 (piktogeuraem) 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 (sv) 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)

1. pictogram
2. (graphical user interface) icon

Synonyms

• (icon): icoon