Sentence examples for set of pictograms from inspiring English sources

DURING every Olympics, in a tradition as hallowed as the torch, viewers encounter a new set of pictograms: that menu of symbols representing the events of the Games.

"Each Olympics gets a new set of pictograms," said Paul Saunders of Saunders Creative, the pictogram designer for the Sydney Olympics, "because, abstract as they are, they are supposed to reflect the Olympic location".

In places it makes deliberate use of unconventional nomenclature; the title of episode 25 of season one is a set of pictograms, while episode 26's title has 187 characters in the Japanese original.

In one poem, the art itself features words set against Internet icons, creating a sort of pictogram or hieroglyphic effect.

VCM includes a set of graphical primitive (shapes, pictograms and colors), and uses graphical language to combine these elements and create icons.

A very small set of these characters are labelled "pictograms", or "pictographs", being basically stylized pictures of what they stand for: "tree" is written 木, the sun 日, and child, 子.

A VCM icon can be described by a color, a basic shape and set of shape modifiers, a central pictogram, a top-right color and one or two top-right pictograms.

The script is a mixture of pictograms, word signs, and phonograms.

Chinese is a fiendishly difficult language to learn, largely because of the complex system of pictograms that make up the written script.

"Tourist Language Handbook" has 17 pages with phrases in English and Japanese; "Hello, Japan" contains 100 pages of pictograms, travel tips and points of etiquette.

He is, however, very good at communicating by way of stone-carving (the land of the Picts is full of "pictograms").