See also: Pictogram (homonymy)
A pictogram is a diagrammatic chart, a stylized figurative drawing functioning like a sign of a written language and which does not transcribe the oral language.
It is used generally for the descriptive to be directed in the space real or communicative like Internet. When possible, it constitutes an alternative to the bilingual Signalisation, making it possible to decrease the quantity of information registered on a panel, and making it possible to avoid (or to decrease) the controversies accompanying the choice by the languages of posting in the zones where, for example, of the groups xenophobe S cohabits with populations of different origin.
The pictograms are very much used in very many fields: geographical maps, weather, roads, automobile instrument panel, transport, tourism, data processing, telephony, health, safety, chemistry, product domestic, textile, environment, etc
Writing
The writing Dongba used by the minority Naxi, in the province of the Yunnan in China is certainly the last alive form of a primarily pictographic writing. The Chinese writing as for it, also partially consists of pictograms. It is in particular the case of the majority of the basic characters used in the construction of the Chinese characters.
Some examples
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See too
- bilingual Icon
- Indication
- Highway code
- Graphics
- Jean Widmer
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