Symbogram

CAVE makes me think of being inside a cave, being surrounded by stalactites and stalagmites and looking out at a big opening.

I don't think there are a lot of symbograms in English; I tried looking up a bunch of two and three letter words to see what I could see, and didn't find much. One could write text though in such a way as to present a more graphic representation of the described thing - much the same way that ambigrams are rendered in order to provide symmetry of transformation. In other words, someone could write the word house in such a way as to resemble a house; making "CAVE" a "natural symbogram" versus a "rendered symbogram".

I suspect Egyptian heiroglyphics are nearly all symbograms. If I knew any Kanji, I'd bet I'd realize what the symbograms in that language are too...