pictorial writing

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• pictorial — /pɪkˈtɔriəl / (say pik tawreeuhl) adjective 1. relating to, expressed in, or of the nature of, a picture or pictures: pictorial writing. 2. illustrated by or containing pictures: a pictorial history. 3. of or relating to a painter or maker of… …  

• writing — /ruy ting/, n. 1. the act of a person or thing that writes. 2. written form: to commit one s thoughts to writing. 3. that which is written; characters or matter written with a pen or the like: His writing is illegible. 4. such characters or… …   Universalium

• Pictorial maps — Recent example of Watercolour ink Geopictorial style illustrated map by Jean Louis Rheault Pictorial maps are a category of maps that are also loosely called illustrated maps, panoramic maps, perspective maps, bird’s eye view maps and… …   Wikipedia

• WRITING —    Written history in Mesopotamia began in the so called Early Dynastic period III (c. 2600–2350 B.C.). At this time, the country was divided into a number of individual cities with their surrounding territories. The first inscriptions were… …   Historical Dictionary of Mesopotamia

• hieroglyphic writing — Introduction       a system that employs characters in the form of pictures. These individual signs, called hieroglyphs (hieroglyph), may be read either as pictures, as symbols for pictures, or as symbols for sounds.       The name hieroglyphic… …   Universalium

• Mixtec writing — An example of the pictorial representations the Mixtecs used for non verbal communication through writing. Here, in this picture, which is a reproduction of a work from the Codex Zouche Nuttall, a village is being sacked by some warriors. Mixtec… …   Wikipedia

• Women's writing in English — Women s writing as a discrete area of literary studies is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their gender, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study. Their texts emerge …   Wikipedia

• Chinese writing — Introduction       basically logographic writing system, one of the world s great writing systems.       Like Semitic writing in the West, Chinese script was fundamental to the writing systems in the East. Until relatively recently, Chinese… …   Universalium

• Mayan hieroglyphic writing — System of writing used by people of the Maya civilization from about the 3rd century AD to the 17th century. Of the various scripts developed in pre Columbian Mesoamerica, Mayan writing is by far the most elaborate and abundantly attested: about… …   Universalium

• Chinese writing system — System of symbols used to write the Chinese language. Chinese writing is fundamentally logographic: there is an exact correspondence between a single symbol, or character, in the script and a morpheme. Each character, no matter how complex, is… …   Universalium

• picture writing — 1. the art of recording events or expressing ideas by pictures, or pictorial symbols, as practiced by preliterate peoples. 2. pictorial symbols forming a record or communication. [1735 45] * * * …   Universalium