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pictogram

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A picture that represents a word or an idea by illustration.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: pictograph, hieroglyph

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From Latin pictus + -o- + -gram.

Across languages

Translations

32 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: пиктограма (piktograma) — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Catalan: pictograma — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Chinese Mandarin: 象形 (xiàngxíng) — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Danish: piktogram — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Dutch: pictogram — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Estonian: piktogramm — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Finnish: piktogrammi — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Finnish: kuvamerkki — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • French: pictogramme — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Galician: pictograma — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • German: Piktogramm — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Greek: εικονόγραμμα (eikonógramma) — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Greek: εικονοσύμβολο (eikonosýmvolo) — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Hungarian: piktogram — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Ido: piktogramo — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Indonesian: piktogram — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Italian: pittogramma — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Japanese: 象形 (shōkei) — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Japanese: ピクトグラム (pikutoguramu) — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Korean: 상형 (sanghyeong) — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Korean: 픽토그램 (piktogeuraem) — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Lithuanian: piktograma — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Norwegian Bokmål: piktogram — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: piktogram — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Polish: piktogram — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Portuguese: pictograma — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Russian: пиктогра́мма (piktográmma) — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Slovene: piktogram — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Spanish: pictograma — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Swedish: piktogram — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Turkish: resim yazı — picture that represents a word or an idea
  • Turkish: resimli çizenek — picture that represents a word or an idea