| NOUN | communication | ideogram, ideograph | a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it |
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| Meaning | A graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it. | |
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| Example | "Chinese characters are ideograms" | |
| Synonym | ideograph | |
| Parts | radical | A character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram |
| Narrower | logogram, logograph | A single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation |
| Broader | character, graph, grapheme, graphic symbol | A written symbol that is used to represent speech |
| Spanish | ideograma | |
| Catalan | ideograma | |
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