Pictograms

thumb|Each of the most popular emoji from the 9 major emoji categories according to the Unicode Emoji Frequency study from 2021, rendered in the Noto Color Emoji font

thumb|Example of a smiley face thumb|An example of an emoticon smiley face (represented using a colon followed by a [[parenthesis) used in direct communication, as seen in this screenshot of an email]] thumb|A smiley emoji

thumb|class=skin-invert-image|upright=0.8|An emoticon portraying a smiling face thumb|class=skin-invert-image|upright=0.8|Examples of kaomoji smileys

thumb|upright=1.35|Sampling of US National Park Service pictograms

thumb|upright|Modern depiction of the caduceus as the symbol of logistics thumb|upright| carrying a winged caduceus upright in his left hand. A Roman copy after a Greek original of the 5th century BCE (Museo Pio-Clementino, [[Rome)]]

thumb|right|A dragon-like ouroboros in a 1478 drawing in an alchemical tract

thumb|237px|Ichthys was adopted as a Christian symbolism|Christian symbol. The ichthys or ichthus (; from ancient Greek , "fish") is, in its modern rendition, a symbol consisting of two intersecting arcs, the right ends extending beyond the meeting point so as to resemble the profile of a fish. It has been speculated that the symbol was used by early Christians as a secret symbol: a shibboleth to determine if another was indeed Christian. It is now known colloquially as the "Jesus fish". This symbol is widely used by Christians as a sign of their faith, often being found on vehicles, necklaces

pirate flag

pictogram (or ideogram) used in computing

symbol of the all-seeing eye (usually shown surrounded by rays of glory and/or in a triangle)

symbol representing the heart

recognisable symbol designed to warn about hazardous or dangerous materials, locations, or objects

symbol usually meaning 'yes' or 'correct'

pictogram which represents a method of washing

pictogram used to represent various components in a schematic diagram of an electrical or electronic circuit

symbol of death

Blissymbols or Blissymbolics is a constructed language conceived as an ideographic writing system called Semantography consisting of several hundred basic symbols, each representing a concept, which can be composed together to generate new symbols that represent new concepts.

Mesoamerican manuscripts made by the pre-Columbian Aztec, and their Nahuatl-speaking descendants

standard set of hazard warning images

direction symbol

method of showing social, technological, biological, and historical connections in pictorial form; standardized and abstracted pictorial symbols to represent social-scientific data with serial repetition

international technical standard for hazard and safety symbols signposts and equipment or places exposed to risk

polygons as symbolic elements

license symbol of a European network of industry-funded systems for recycling the packaging materials of consumer goods

set of pictograms once used in the Yaeyama Islands of southwestern Japan

illustration used in electronic messaging, typically large

map or schematic diagram of fixed routes of bus, passenger rail and ferry networks

public information symbols standard

symbol found on packaging stating the amount of months a product should be used for after opening

symbol of secular humanism

logogram consisting of the embedded written representation of a word in a foreign language, which does not have a spoken counterpart in the main language of the text; e.g. the symbol &, derived from the Latin "et", is read as the English word "and"

symbol used for indicating whether power is on/off for electronic devices

set of 50 passenger/pedestrian symbols developed by AIGA for the United States Department of Transportation

eight-arrowed symbol originally devised by Michael Moorcock

variation or parody of the Christian ichthys symbol

purported Lenape historical narrative

symbol often indicating that some activity is not permitted

European council directive for safety signs

pictograms for labelling chemicals in the European Union

Greek symbol of Hermes erroneously used as a symbol of healing

postconquest cartographic Aztec codex