ideograph
/ˈɪdɪə(ʊ)ɡrɑːf
/ /ˈʌɪdɪə(ʊ)ɡrɑːf/noun
Another term for ideogram.Then ten years of school for learning the first thousand Chinese kanji ideographs, with thousands more to go....
- Later to create more words, symbols were added to pictographs to form ideographs.
- 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.
Derivatives
ideographic
/ /ʌɪdɪə(ʊ)ˈɡrafɪk / adjective ...- Their system was an integrated technology of stylus, clay, and cuneiform that was at first pictographic and became in due course ideographic and syllabographic.
- 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.
ideography
/ /ʌɪdɪˈɒɡrəfi / noun ...- In traditional ideography, each of these has a distinct character.
- 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.
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