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Recent Examples of ideogram
This erroneous belief that all Chinese characters are ideograms — symbols that express ideas directly, without language — remains widespread today in the West.
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Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 6 May 2025
The encrusted object clearly qualified as cultural property, even more so when the treasure hunters cleaned it up, revealing that the shining chunk was actually an ingot stamped with Chinese ideograms.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
And as a sign of the ideogram’s lasting appeal, Hadid was photographed in New York City earlier this week wearing a cropped T-shirt with the yellow icon — albeit the brand was unknown.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 11 July 2024
The artist’s small paintings are as dense and provocative as his large ones — tiny worlds full of ideograms, like tarot cards.
—Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2023
However, using numbers is not allowed under those rules, and using pictures, like an emoji or ideogram, in a name is expressly forbidden.
—Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 26 May 2020
Much like the previous set introduced last year, Emoji 13.0 promotes inclusion and diversity, with ideograms of gender-neutral brides and grooms, Santa Claus, and bottle-feeding parents in various skin tones.
—cleveland, 30 Jan. 2020
Luxurious hotels, casinos, and nightclubs merge with gray buildings, European remains, and Taoist temples, in a city full of ideogram signs, and unmistakable smells and sounds.
—Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2020
Spanish filled the airwaves; the ideograms and characters of Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and other Asian languages covered the store signs, sparking an angry nativist movement.
—Héctor Tobar, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 6 May 2025
The encrusted object clearly qualified as cultural property, even more so when the treasure hunters cleaned it up, revealing that the shining chunk was actually an ingot stamped with Chinese ideograms.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
And as a sign of the ideogram’s lasting appeal, Hadid was photographed in New York City earlier this week wearing a cropped T-shirt with the yellow icon — albeit the brand was unknown.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 11 July 2024
The artist’s small paintings are as dense and provocative as his large ones — tiny worlds full of ideograms, like tarot cards.
—Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2023
However, using numbers is not allowed under those rules, and using pictures, like an emoji or ideogram, in a name is expressly forbidden.
—Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 26 May 2020
Much like the previous set introduced last year, Emoji 13.0 promotes inclusion and diversity, with ideograms of gender-neutral brides and grooms, Santa Claus, and bottle-feeding parents in various skin tones.
—cleveland, 30 Jan. 2020
Luxurious hotels, casinos, and nightclubs merge with gray buildings, European remains, and Taoist temples, in a city full of ideogram signs, and unmistakable smells and sounds.
—Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2020
Spanish filled the airwaves; the ideograms and characters of Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and other Asian languages covered the store signs, sparking an angry nativist movement.
—Héctor Tobar, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ideogram
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Modeling Reality Without Disruption A digital twin creates a virtual representation of your identity ecosystem, spanning both OT and IT systems.—
Peter Hill,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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The tablescape—bright with placemats and menus inspired by vintage TV color bars—paid homage to the aesthetics of broadcast history, highlighting themes around Black life, consumerism, and media representation, all central to Adams’ practice.—
Skylar Mitchell,
Essence,
5 Aug. 2025
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Humans have been communicating with pictures since the days of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
28 July 2025
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Their antecedents are ancient (Egyptian hieroglyphs, Chinese characters, Mesoamerican pictograms), though the journey from their modern birthplace (Japan circa the turn of the millennium) to their current ubiquity has been quick.—
Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
29 June 2025
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Those who photographed and painted the Canyon over the years have inspired generations of travelers with their depictions of its grandeur and vast scope, but nothing compares to seeing it for yourself.—
Michael Salerno,
AZCentral.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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The wildfire story is one facet of Maron’s depiction of living in the world right now.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
1 Aug. 2025
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The image, which appears to have been created with AI, shows the prison in the background.—
Noe Padilla,
IndyStar,
7 Aug. 2025
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Keeping the moon in the background of an image with another subject is often much more powerful than an image of just the moon.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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The museum, set on an 11-acre campus, will feature pieces showing how humans have used art to tell stories throughout history, including comics, sketches, murals, paintings, hieroglyphics, sculptures, movie props and costumes, and more.—
Kristen Taketa,
Mercury News,
28 July 2025
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From ancient cave drawings and hieroglyphics to paintings, murals, illustrations, comics, digital media, and sculptures, this panel will delve into the universal language of illustrated storytelling.—
Adam B. Vary,
Variety,
11 July 2025
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Topline The Department of Homeland Security has posted illustrations depicting the beauty of 1940s Washington, D.C., across multiple social media posts this week, drawing criticism from some who say the Trump administration is glorifying a pre-civil rights era United States.—
Conor Murray,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Newsweek illustration showing redistricting states.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Aug. 2025
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That movie was an acerbic portrait of a friendship gone sour, laced with barbed insults.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
6 Aug. 2025
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More than half of the permanent holdings are part of Mr. Frick’s vast original collection of Old Masters, family portraits, and other paintings, medals, ceramics, sculptures, clocks and watches, and decorative objects.—
Irene S. Levine,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Ideogram.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ideogram. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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