ideograph

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Recent Examples of ideograph To integrate that useful principle into his encoding scheme, Zhi decided to index characters by their components—the simpler characters within each ideograph—using the first letter of each component’s pinyin spelling. Jing Tsu, Wired, 23 Jan. 2022
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Noun
  • The encrusted object clearly qualified as cultural property, even more so when the treasure hunters cleaned it up, revealing that the shining chunk was actually an ingot stamped with Chinese ideograms.
    Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
  • And as a sign of the ideogram’s lasting appeal, Hadid was photographed in New York City earlier this week wearing a cropped T-shirt with the yellow icon — albeit the brand was unknown.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 11 July 2024
Noun
  • With multidimensional characters, juicy storylines, and Black culture front and center, The Gates will have impactful representation, one of the key touchstones of the venture.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Wall Street's second-largest exchange now faces a dramatic shift in its push for diverse board leadership representation.
    Kori Hale, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Eventually, Proto-Sinaitic script, which transformed some hieroglyphs into alphabetic letters, emerged in the Sinai Peninsula around 1900 B.C.E. Scholars have long thought that this was when the alphabet was invented, as Schwartz says in a statement.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The entrance was decorated with reliefs and hieroglyphs depicting Repyt; a door frame on the opposite side depicts the fertility god Min alongside two rarely shown decans, or stars that measure the passage of time at night, as well as a falcon and ibis heads.
    Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 27 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Nonetheless, viewing a depiction of business value and technical value on X and Y axes portrays a more integrative approach to enterprise storage.
    Eric Herzog, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
  • This small house contained a number of sensual, mythic depictions.
    Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • In preliminary tests, the model excels at three critical tasks: segmentation (dividing images into distinct anatomical parts), classification (categorizing images based on medical conditions), and visual localization (precisely identifying specific features like fractures or tumors).
    Bernard Marr, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Footage and images from the scene match the scene shown in the Facebook video, showing the same small white plane in the same position on the side of the highway.
    Katie Smith, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • One of the coffins is etched with hieroglyphics that indicate a priest was buried inside, but the individual was a 14-year-old boy much smaller than the coffin.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Nov. 2024
  • But the mathematics underlying the chart is unfathomably complex, a combination of equations that make hieroglyphics seem self-explanatory.
    Tom Siegfried, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • There are two styles, animation and illustration, with a third style coming at a later date.
    David Phelan, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Teaching Tips Uncover more of the archaeological findings of Çatalhöyük: Visit the Çatalhöyük Research Project website, which contains archive reports, illustrations, photographs, an extensive bibliography, and more.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Three days later, a handful of fans gathered in Elysian Park for a Banda lookalike contest, with seven contestants showing off their resemblance to the bespectacled and heavily tatted Dodgers reliever, who emerged as something of a cult hero this season.
    Mike DiGiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The sudden appearance of Elsie, who bears more than a passing resemblance to the character of Gollum from The Lord of the Rings movies, causes Snell to let out an audible gasp.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024

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“Ideograph.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ideograph. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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