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  • n  a graphic character used in picture writing

  • They are fragmentsnot in the sense of being broken, but in the "historical" sense of archaic fragments: the illegible pictograph, the stone bearing a message in a dead language .
  • From a Rockettes-style line eight or 10 deep, they would evolve into the human pictograph of a piano or a woman's face.
  • Sound effects are imaginative and frequent; when a spaceman gets zapped (a pictograph showing smashed robot parts flashes on the screen), a descending scale of cheerful beeps is .
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  • Chinese Character: Boat or Ship ?
    The Chinese character ? ( zh?u ) refers to a boat or a ship. In ancient pictograph form, the character was often slanted slightly, making the two sides of the character representative of the sides of a boat. The line … The post Chinese Character: Boat or Ship ? appeared first on The Epoch Times .
    June 11, 2013 - The Epoch Times

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