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ideograph

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id·e·o·graph  (d--grf)
n.
See ideogram.
ide·o·graphic adj.
ide·o·graphi·cal·ly adv.
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Noun1.ideograph - a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it; "Chinese characters are ideograms"
ideogram
grapheme, graphic symbol, character - a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters"
logogram, logograph - a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation; "7 is a logogram that is pronounced `seven' in English and `nanatsu' in Japanese"
radical - a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram


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The Brunswick Centre was, they said, 'an ideograph of city-centreness', exemplary in fact when considered alongside other city-centre redevelopments.
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In Afrikan Alphabets, the author introduces a number of ideographs, pictographs and scripts devised and designed by Africans to express and represent a voice sound, a word, or an idea.
The alphabet as ideographic art by Reynolds, Clarence V. / Black Issues Book Review
The Japanese call them taifu, which is written with the ideographs for 'pedestal' or 'calyx' ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]) and 'wind' ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]).
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