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

“emoji”实际上日语词汇“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.

其下方象形文字则可能记录1066年哈雷彗星经过地球景象。

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）用简单线条来勾勒某物形状。

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，都象形，直画出物品样子或与其十分图案。

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.

西方人常说汉字象形文字。

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

那里岩石上刻有可能有一千多年历史象形文字。

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，悬崖高处象形文字经翻译后被解读为记录1054年发生超新星爆炸事件。

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，在阿纳姆发现最古老图画一个用木炭制成 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毫无意义叽叽喳喳或点击声。

The cute, small pictographs, once known by the less catchy name of 'emoticons', have come a long way since first appearing on the internet as the pixelated colour emoji first created in 1999 by Japanese artist, Shigetaka Kurita.

这些可爱小象形文字曾以不太好听“表情符号” 这个名字而为人所知，自 1999 年由日本艺术家栗田穰孝 (Shigetaka Kurita) 首次创作像素化彩色表情符号首次出现在互联网上以来， 已经取得了长足进步。