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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