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picture writing

NOUN
  1. a writing system using pictographs

How To Use picture writing In A Sentence

  • As McLimans says in the introduction, In a way, this alphabet is a return to picture writing. Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet
  • But of course the great intellectual barrier that Champollion had to overcome was this long-held assumption that hieroglyphics were just picture writing.
  • By means of iconic script - ‘picture writing’ - pictorial manuscripts had ordered religious lore as well as the dynastic genealogies, political histories, and cadastres of cities and kings in pre-Hispanic central Mexico.
  • These included decorative artifacts, painted tepees that served as card rooms, and a series of so-called ‘picture writing’ panels that depicted the war records of individual Blackfeet intertribal war veterans.
  • Written characters are, in fact, derived from pictography or picture writing, those in use at the present time being only developed and conventionalized forms of primitive drawings. Chinese Painters A Critical Study
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