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Picture writing   /pˈɪktʃər rˈaɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Picture writing

noun
1.
A writing system using pictographs.





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"Picture writing" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Indian art of picture writing, and he had, that very day, added new paintings to the record. His children had never heard of any other way to read or write, and they ...
— Two Indian Children of Long Ago • Frances Taylor
... lines owe something to his eye for costume, for staging; but, as mere picture writing, it is as firm as if carved on an obelisk. And as he reconciled concrete and abstract here, so he had left his short breath, in those earlier lines, behind, and had come into the long sweep and open water ...
— The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke • Rupert Brooke


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