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Definition of Ideograph
1. Noun. A graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it. "Chinese characters are ideograms"
Generic synonyms: Character, Grapheme, Graphic Symbol
Specialized synonyms: Logogram, Logograph
Terms within: Radical
Definition of Ideograph
1. n. Same as Ideogram.
Definition of Ideograph
1. Noun. An ideogram. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ideograph
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Ideograph
1. Same as Ideogram. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ideograph
Literary usage of Ideograph
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Hence the sanier ideograph, or character, as we may now term it, ... An ideograph
continued to represent the pronunciation of the word for ..."
2. Outlines of Chinese Art by John Calvin Ferguson (1919)
"The clouds gathering before a summer thunder- shower took on the form of a dragon
with huge ideograph LUNG, MEANING DRAGON ideograph LU, MEANING DEER head, ..."
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