Emoji is actually a Japanese word that means " pictogram" or " pictograph."

“emoji”实际上是日语词汇“絵文字”，意为“图案文字”或“象形文字”。

Below that, a pictograph may mark the sighting of Hailey's Comet in 1066.

其下方的象形文字则可能记录的是1066年哈雷彗星经过地球的景象。

In pictograph characters like “Tian”, meaning farm, simple lines were used to outline the shape of something.

在像象形文字中，（如“田”字，代表农场）是用简单的线条来勾勒某物的形状。

The signs are pictographs, drawings of items which stand just for that item or something closely related to it.

这些符号在当时很有代表性，都是象形的，直接画出物品的样子或与其十分接近的图案。

But there are still many pictographs that haven't been dated.

但仍有许多象形文字没有标明年代。

Westerners often say that han zi are pictographs.

西方人常说汉字是象形文字。

The rocks there were etched with pictographs perhaps a thousand years old.

那里的岩石上刻有可能有一千多年历史的象形文字。

In another portion of Chaco Canyon, a pictograph high on an overhang has been interpreted as marking a supernova explosion in 1054.

在查科峡谷另一处，悬崖高处的象形文字经翻译后被解读为记录1054年发生的超新星爆炸事件。

The oldest drawing in Arnhem found so far is an X-shaped pictograph made with charcoal that scientists were able to radiocarbon-date to around 28,000 years old.

迄今为止，在阿纳姆发现的最古老的图画是一个用木炭制成的 X 形象形文字，科学家们通过放射性碳测年法确定它大约有 28,000 年的历史。

A species that can recognize objects by echolocation, as cetaceans and bats can, might communicate using acoustic pictographs, for example, which might sound to us like meaningless chirps or clicks.

例如，能够通过回声定位来识别物体的物种（如鲸类和蝙蝠）可能会使用声学象形文字进行交流，这对我们来说可能听起来像是毫无意义的叽叽喳喳或点击声。