What is another word for picture writing?

Pronunciation: [pˈɪkt͡ʃə ɹˈa͡ɪtɪŋ] (IPA)

Picture writing is a form of communication that involves the use of images to convey ideas and messages. The practice has been around for centuries, with various cultures across the world using picture writing as a means of recording history, passing down stories, and sharing information. Synonyms for picture writing include hieroglyphics, pictograms, ideographs, and petroglyphs. Each of these terms describes a style of writing that relies on visual symbols, pictures, and abstract shapes to represent words or concepts. While picture writing may not be as common in modern times, it remains an important part of human history and a valuable insight into the way ancient cultures communicated.

Synonyms for Picture writing:

What are the hypernyms for Picture writing?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    visual communication, pictography, hieroglyphic writing, Ideographic writing, pictorial writing, symbolic writing.

What are the hyponyms for Picture writing?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

Famous quotes with Picture writing

  • The allegories of the "fall of man" and the "deluge," are the two most important features of the Pentateuch. They are, so to say, the Alpha and Omega, the highest and the lowest keys of the scale of harmony on which resounds the majestic hymns of the creation of mankind; for they discover to him who questions the Zura (figurative Gematria), the process of man's evolution from the highest spiritual entity unto the lowest physical — the post-diluvian man, as in the Egyptian hieroglyphics, every sign of the picture writing which cannot be made to fit within a certain circumscribed geometrical figure may be rejected as only intended by the sacred hierogrammatist for a premeditated blind — so many of the details in the Bible must be treated on the same principle, that portion only being accepted which answers to the numerical methods taught in the Kabala.
    Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
  • There were no clouds, the sun was going down in a limpid, gold-washed sky. Just as the lower edge of the red disk rested on the high fields against the horizon, a great black figure suddenly appeared on the face of the sun. We sprang to our feet, straining our eyes toward it. In a moment we realized what it was. On some upland farm, a plough had been left standing in the field. The sun was sinking just behind it. Magnified across the distance by the horizontal light, it stood out against the sun, was exactly contained within the circle of the disk; the handles, the tongue, the share — black against the molten red. There it was, heroic in size, a picture writing on the sun.
    Willa Cather

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