Chinese Word: 象形 - Talking Chinese English Dictionary

pictogram; one of the Six Methods 六书 of forming Chinese characters; Chinese character derived from a picture; sometimes called hieroglyph

1		tā 她 gěi 给 wǒ 我 xiě 写 le 了 yī fēng 一封 yòng 用 xiàng xíng 象形 tú àn 图案 xiě 写 de 的 xìn 信。 She hieroglyphed a letter to me.
2		zài 在 xiàn shí 现实 zhōng 中， dà duō shù 大多数 shí jiān 时间 xiàng xíng 象形 wén xué 文学 bèi 被 yòng yú 用于 xiāng dāng 相当 wú hài 无害 de 的 tí zì 题字 huò 或 lì shǐ 历史 de 的 miáo shù 描述。 In reality, most of the time hieroglyphs were used for innocuous inscriptions or historical depictions.
3		cóng 从 ní 泥 bǎn 版 xiē xíng 楔形 wén 文 dào 到 xiàng xíng 象形 wén 文 míng wén 铭文， zǎo qī 早期 gè zhǒng 各种 shū fǎ 书法 tǐ xì 体系 jué dà bù fen 绝大部分 dōu 都 yǔ 与 yǔ yīn 语音 xiàng fēn lí 相分离。 From bureaucratic cuneiform to monumental hieroglyphs, early writing systems were mostly divorced from speech.

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