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? Pictographs, also known as linguistic signs, are the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation, an inheritance of the way ancestors originally described things, the earliest characters in the world, and the most vivid and well-preserved Chinese fonts.
Hieroglyphs refer to writing with graphics, which are similar in shape to what they represent. Generally speaking, hieroglyphics are the earliest characters. Outline the shape characteristics of the object to be expressed with lines or strokes of words.
China's original characters belong to hieroglyphics, so do Oracle Bone Inscriptions, stone carvings and inscriptions on bronze. Although Chinese characters still retain the characteristics of hieroglyphics, after thousands of years of evolution, they have been far away from the original image, so they are not hieroglyphics, but ideograms.