| Object-naming tasks employ pictures, and kanji characters are ideographic and sometimes pictorial in nature. |
| For the Chinese, both the ideographic script and pictorial representation functioned as graphic signs that expressed meaning. |
| All forms of Chinese writing of the fourth to eleventh centuries and Tangut writing are ideographic. |
| The forms of the late traditional sculpture achieve a level of plastic ideogram comparable to that of the late ideographic rock pictures. |
| The sad truth is that even chimpanzees and rats can learn to read simple ideographic language. |
| Thus Windelband proposed that the natural sciences are nomothetic and the historical or cultural sciences ideographic. |
