Sentences with phrase «uses ideograms»

Here's a small but revealing example of how communications technologies can work differently once they leave the land of their birth: individual Twitter posts can express more information in Chinese than in English, because the Chinese writing system uses ideograms rather than an alphabet...

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The three characteristics scientists use to identify a chromosome are readily visible in an ideogram: length; the banding pattern of the dye, which reflects the type of nucleotides concentrated in the chromosome; and the location of the centromere, a waistlike constriction required for proper movement during cell division.

Similarly, Emoji, or ideograms often used in text messaging, have incredible potential in directing our students to effectively communicate through visual designs.

Xu Bing worked with school children in Kenya to develop artworks using the Chinese characters relating to trees (such as æœ ¨, æž — , æ # ®, the ideograms for «wood,» «woods,» and «forest»).