单词 | word-writing |
释义 | > as lemmasword-writing word-writing n. logographic writing. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > system of writing > [noun] > thought-writing ideography1836 word-writing1843 thought-writing1860 notion-writing1863 1843 S. G. Howe in Lect. Amer. Inst. Instr. 1842 ii. 75 There are three kinds of writing: first, word-writing, or lexigraphic, as the writing of the Chinese, and some of the Egyptian hieroglyphical signs. 1856 Ladies' Repository Feb. 116/2 The third stage of progress in written language, is indicated by that system of word-writing which now prevails in China. 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xvii. 285 A better name [for ideographic writing]..would be word-writing or logographic writing. 1942 L. Bloomfield in C. Hockett Bloomfield Anthol. (1970) 385 In word writing each word is represented by a conventional sign... Chinese writing is the most perfect system of this kind. 1996 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 59 66 The xingsheng characters retain the element of word-writing and combine it with rebus writing. < as lemmas |
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