0 a picture that represents something, especially one painted onto rock:
The caves contain important aboriginal pictographs.
Chinese has pictographs, not letters as we understand them.
1 → pictogram
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.
The pictographs are "conduits" through which the thematic contents are communicated.
A pictograph is an icon of its referent, as is a portrait of the individual who sat for it.
The target and distractors are not indicated by lights, but by pictographs projected onto the buttons.
