Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A character, symbol, or figure which suggests the idea of an object without expressing its name.
- noun Same as
ideogram , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
ideogram .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
ideogram .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it
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Examples
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[Illustration: Glyph] is the ideograph, meaning a ship.
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Certain of the tablets contain lists of persons of both sexes, apparently denoted by their personal names, the signs which appear to stand for the name being followed in each case by an ideograph which is the determinative of 'man,' or 'woman,' as the case may be.
The Sea-Kings of Crete James Baikie 1898
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Besides this compound ideograph, the name of the god Sin was also expressed by the character for "30," provided with the prefix of divinity, an ideograph which is due to the thirty days of the month, and is thought to be of late date.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Theophilus Goldridge Pinches 1895
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[366-1] As the term "ideograph" is somewhat broad and comprehensive, it may be well enough to state that I use it as expressing that stage of symbolic writing where the picture characters have so changed that all resemblance to the objects they were originally intended to represent is lost, and therefore they can only be considered as mnemonic signs.
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Paint them, paint them apart, the three originals, unrelated, so that we may know how the wise men of old wisely built up the ideograph of to marry.
THE TEARS OF AH KIM 2010
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Example: The ideograph for "Shrimp in Lobster Sauce" actually says "warts in yak snot."
Immaculate misconceptions: A catalogue of mythed opportunities 2010
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On the Chinese written language, the ideograph that stands for "trouble" represents two women under one roof.
Archive 2007-02-18 Newmania 2007
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Incidentally, this is probably what happened to Chinese: every Chinese language attaches the same meaning to each ideograph, but pronounces them differently.
Kaplin's Simplifiid Speling, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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On the Chinese written language, the ideograph that stands for "trouble" represents two women under one roof.
Quick One Newmania 2007
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I wonder how one checks the accuracy of an ideograph or stamped kanji?
Sound Politics: "So I tried it. I thought I was gonna die" 2006
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