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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ideogram
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To integrate that useful principle into his encoding scheme, Zhi decided to index characters by their components—the simpler characters within each ideograph—using the first letter of each component’s pinyin spelling.—
Jing Tsu,
Wired,
23 Jan. 2022
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Now, the one-year grace period for the act’s mandatory registration requirements has ended, meaning agencies must be registered as model management companies or groups with the New York Department of Labor (NYDL) to better enable models to discern legitimate representation.—
Madeleine Schulz,
Vogue,
19 June 2026
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Mbiya has friends and representation living in France.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
19 June 2026
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Pieces of papyrus or stone, with hieroglyphs sometimes incomplete, were recreated as a precious trio of clips, each with Fragment in their name.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
9 June 2026
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Go for a stroll on the water line at night or early morning and hopefully tracks will present themselves, flipper marks and a solid line for the shell, like hieroglyphs.—
Eric Barton,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Jan. 2026
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One of Miami’s oldest Black communities, Overtown is a cautionary tale and a resounding depiction of the resiliency.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
15 June 2026
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The celebration ended with a fireworks display along the lakefront that included a fiery depiction of the American flag.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
14 June 2026
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The last image was another of the couple together, with Derek once again holding Rumer’s belly.—
Laura Millar,
PEOPLE,
12 June 2026
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The images showed how quarks carrying different fractions of the pion’s momentum are distributed across the particle.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
12 June 2026
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Disneyland park maps are probably the most common free souvenirs at the Disney theme park that include celebration buttons, character stickers, Autopia driver’s licenses, Indiana Jones hieroglyphics decoder cards, Animation Academy character drawings and Oga’s Cantina cocktail coasters.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
7 May 2026
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Egyptian hieroglyphics indicate that the art of sugar confectionery was established at least 3,000 years ago.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
31 Mar. 2026
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To me, World Cup ticket prices are a striking illustration of how deep this reality has become.—
Stefan Szymanski,
Fortune,
12 June 2026
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But this week in Tennessee, more than 500 miles away from Washington, DC, officials quietly unveiled a far more revealing illustration of the US president’s future architectural legacy.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
12 June 2026
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David Hockney, the British artist most famous for his 1960s paintings of Los Angeles swimming pools and double portraits rendered in vivid acrylic paints, died at his London home on Thursday, June 11, at age 88.—
Constance W. Glenn,
Architectural Digest,
12 June 2026
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That year also saw Hockney’s first appearance in Vogue, a group portrait with fellow painters Howard Hodgkin, John Howlin, and Ian Stephenson.—
Robin Muir,
Vogue,
12 June 2026
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“Ideogram.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ideogram. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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