pictographic

基本解釋

This feature, known as synecdoche, is common in the known pictographic languages.
這種特色的表達就是人們所知的提喻，它通常在已知的象形文字語言中出現(xiàn)。
Writing, on the other hand, appeared to come much later, with the earliest records of a pictographic writing system dating back to just 5000 years ago.
另一方面，書寫似乎出現(xiàn)的時間更晚，關于象形文字書寫系統(tǒng)最早的記錄只能追溯到5000年前。
Grouping is typically seen in early pictographic languages - the combined symbols representing a new concept - and the researchers suspect that prehistoric Europeans had established a similar system.
在早期的象形文字語言中，成組聚集是經典特色。

Most notably, the entire desktop interface is entirely pictographic, with no title bar menus and very little in the way of pull down commands, which probably makes it easier to teach kids who may still be learning how to read.
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He argued that film editing was a kind of pictographic syntax, that in acting physiognomy was more important than psychology, and that the sound and colour design in a film should be treated as fully expressive elements in their own right.
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象形
Domestic scholars attempt to investigate the motivation of words, sentences and discourse instead of the letters, though they have paid attention to the imagic and pictographic phenomenon of the English language. This paper is intended to only discuss the imagic nature and thinking way of the English language by comparing the denotation of and viewpoint reflected from the featured letters of English words with those of the radicals of Chinese characters.
國內學者試圖從詞匯、句法和語篇層面探討英語語言的象形本質及其理據,但關于字母在表意功能和英語思維方面的研究仍是鳳毛麟角。