PICTOGRAM (week 1)

 A pictogram, also called a pictograph, or simply picto, and also an 'icon', is an ideogram that conveys and graphic systems in which the characters are to considerable extent pictorial in appearance. Pictography is a form of writing which uses representional, pictorial drawing, similarly to cuneiform and to some extent, hieroglyph writing, which also uses drawing as phonetic letters or determinative rhymes. In certain modern use, pictograms participate to a formal languange, its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object. Pictographs are often used in writing and graphic systems in which the characters are to considerable extent pictorial in appearance.