English

Alternative forms

• pictogramme (rare)

Noun

pictogram ‎(plural pictograms)

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

Usage notes

Strictly speaking, a pictogram represents by illustration, an ideogram represents an idea, and a logogram represents a word: Chinese characters are all logograms, but few are pictograms or ideograms. Casually, pictogram is used to represent all of these: it is a picture representing some concept.

Translations

Synonyms

• pictograph
• hieroglyph

Related terms

• ideogram
• logogram

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

pictogram n ‎(plural pictogrammen, diminutive pictogrammetje n)

1. pictogram
2. (graphical user interface) icon

Synonyms

• (icon): icoon