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IDEOGRAM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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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 ("ideogram" is a kind of...):

character; graph; grapheme; graphic symbol (a written symbol that is used to represent speech)

Meronyms (parts of "ideogram"):

radical (a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ideogram"):

logogram; logograph (a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation)

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