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

“emoji”实际上是日语词汇“絵文字”，意为“图案文字”或“象文字”。

Below that, a pictograph may mark the sighting of Hailey's Comet in 1066.

其下方象文字则可能记录是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.

像象文字中，（如“田”字，代表农场）是用简单线条来勾勒某。

The signs are pictographs, drawings of items which stand just for that item or something closely related to it.

这些符号当时很有代表性，都是象，直接品样子或与其十分接近图案。

But there are still many pictographs that haven't been dated.

但仍有许多象文字没有标明年代。

Westerners often say that han zi are pictographs.

西方人常说汉字是象文字。

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文字。

In another portion of Chaco Canyon, a pictograph high on an overhang has been interpreted as marking a supernova explosion in 1054.

查科峡谷另一处，悬崖高处象文字经翻译后被解读为记录1054年发生超新星爆炸事件。

The trees in the forest were marked with strange symbols and signs, some of which were like ancient pictographs or wedge - shaped characters.

森林中树木上刻有奇特符号和标记，其中一些像是古老象文字或楔文字。

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，阿纳姆发现最古老图是一个用木炭制成 X 象文字，科学家们通过放射性碳测年法确定它大约有 28,000 年历史。

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现互联网上以来， 已经取得了长足进步。