Definition of ideograph in English:
ideograph
noun ˈʌɪdɪə(ʊ)ɡrɑːfˈɪdɪə(ʊ)ɡrɑːfˈidēəˌɡrafˈīdēəˌɡraf
another term for ideogram
Example sentencesExamples
- 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.
- Some pictographs were used as ideographs because they have different semantic meanings.
- Later to create more words, symbols were added to pictographs to form ideographs.
- Then ten years of school for learning the first thousand Chinese kanji ideographs, with thousands more to go.
- The Bronze Age engravings in this region are symbolic pictograms, without any attempt at realism; there is also no indication that they should be evaluated as hieroglyphs or ideographs.
Derivatives
adjective ʌɪdɪə(ʊ)ˈɡrafɪkɪdɪə(ʊ)ˈɡrafɪk
Their system was an integrated technology of stylus, clay, and cuneiform that was at first pictographic and became in due course ideographic and syllabographic.
Example sentencesExamples
- Ancient Egyptians developed a pictographic and ideographic writing system known as hieroglyphics.
- Kanji characters, on the other hand, are ideographic, and often have several pronunciations and multiple meanings.
- Object-naming tasks employ pictures, and kanji characters are ideographic and sometimes pictorial in nature.
- The sad truth is that even chimpanzees and rats can learn to read simple ideographic language.
noun ɪdɪˈɒɡrəfiʌɪdɪˈɒɡrəfi
In traditional ideography, each of these has a distinct character.
Example sentencesExamples
- There was no resemblance to the Greek alphabet English utilises; more like a coalition of Egyptian hieroglyphics and Chinese ideography.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Greek idea 'form' + -graph.