pictograph
noun [ C ] /ˈpɪk.tə.ɡrɑːf/ us/ˈpɪk.tə.ɡræf/
石壁画
a picture that represents something, especially one painted onto rock
The caves contain important aboriginal pictographs. 洞中有重要的原住民石壁画。
象形文字
a symbol that represents an idea, word, or phrase
Chinese has pictographs, not letters as we understand them. 中文使用象形文字，不是我们熟悉的字母。
Synonym: pictogram
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- Many pictographs and petroglyphs (carvings in the rock) were lost or destroyed by dam construction on the Columbia River.
- Archaeologists say the pictographs are the only written records left by early Indian peoples, who otherwise relied on oral histories.
- At Bhimbetka (India) and Matopo Hills (Zimbabwe) there are rock shelters with evidence of Stone Age occupation as well as pictographs (rock paintings).
- Rock art experts think the pictographs found here are complex murals that tell stories about the artists' spiritual beliefs.
- This symbol is a pictograph of a fishhook.