pictogram

• pictogramme (rare)

A knife-and-fork pictogram is used in North American highway signage to represent a food vendor.

pictogram (plural pictograms)

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

Strictly speaking, a pictogram represents by illustration, an ideogram represents an idea, and a logogram represents a word. Casually, pictogram is used to represent all of these: it is a picture representing some concept.

• pictograph
• hieroglyph

• emoji
• ideogram
• logogram

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pictogram n (plural pictogrammen, diminutive pictogrammetje n)

1. pictogram
2. (graphical user interface) icon

• (icon): icoon