Question

explain pictographic

Answer 1

Pictography is a form of writing which uses representational, pictorial drawings, similarly to cuneiform and, to some extent, hieroglyphic writing, which also uses drawings as phonetic letters or determinative rhymes.

Answer 2

a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase. Pictographs were used as the earliest known form of writing. Example :having been discovered in Egypt and Mesopotamia from before 3000 BC.
"an ancient pictograph of the Great Goddess"
a pictorial representation of statistics on a chart, graph, or computer screen.