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IDEOGRAPH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it
Example:
Chinese characters are ideograms
Synonyms:
ideogram; ideograph
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("ideograph" is a kind of...):
character; graph; grapheme; graphic symbol (a written symbol that is used to represent speech)
Meronyms (parts of "ideograph"):
radical (a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ideograph"):
logogram; logograph (a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation)
