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Recent Examples of pictogramLabels typically include warning pictograms and complex regulatory information in various formats.—Jeanette Rohr, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025 America’s most popular airline routes (by Melvin Backman) SURPRISING DISCOVERIES
Fifty years ago this weekend, scientists radioed a distant cluster of stars a pictogram using binary code.—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 18 Nov. 2024 Akkadian was written in cuneiform, a system invented by the Sumerians that involves engraving pictograms and symbols into clay with a reed stylus.—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024 Nevertheless, Kurita’s pictograms bear little resemblance to modern emojis and were more akin to the Macintosh pictograms created by Susan Kare in 1984.—Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for pictogram
Initially used to track agricultural trade and taxes, early pictographs evolved into cuneiform—a sophisticated system of record-keeping.
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Solange Charas,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
But before this, some of the brightest Chinese minds of the 20th century had to figure out a way to harness the complex pictographs that make up written Chinese into a typewriter, and later, a computer.
Humans have been communicating with pictures since the days of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
28 July 2025
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.
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.
She, the cinema; he, the audience — these ciphers would be compelling in short-form, but in carrying a feature they’re only buoyed by the natural chemistry of their performers.
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Blake Simons,
IndieWire,
6 Sep. 2025
Most organizations have little to no understanding of what cryptographic ciphers, keys and protocols are in use across their networks, applications and devices.
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