“…Those which partake the simple qualities, or First Firstnesses, are images; those which represent the relations, mainly dyadic, or so regraded, of the parts of one thing by analogous relations in their own parts, are diagrams; those which represent the representative character of a representamen by representing a parallelism in something else, are metaphors. (CP 2.276) In the literature, Peirce's notion of hypoiconicity has been employed with reference to art (Bisanz, 2015;Jappy, 2011;Lefebvre, 2007;Morris, 2013), to diagrammatic reasoning (Bellucci, 2013;Farias and Queiroz, 2006;Stjernfelt, 2000), sign taxonomy (Freadman, 2004;Santaella, 1995), embodiment (Andacht, 2003(Andacht, , 2013Ransdell, 1979), metaphor (Jappy, 1996) as an iconic 'substratum' (Short, 2007: 216), Chinese architecture (Chu, 2018) and cartoons (Chu, 2020).…”