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Definition of Logogram
1. Noun. A single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation. "7 is a logogram that is pronounced `seven' in English and `nanatsu' in Japanese"
Definition of Logogram
1. n. A word letter; a phonogram, that, for the sake of brevity, represents a word; as, |, i. e., t, for it. Cf. Grammalogue.
Definition of Logogram
1. Noun. A character or symbol that represents a word or phrase (e.g. a character of the Chinese writing system). ¹
2. Noun. A graphical symbol representing a concept or thing, as in roadside signs; a logo. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Logogram
1. a symbol used to represent an entire word [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Logogram
Literary usage of Logogram
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Phonographic Amanuensis: A Presentation of Pitman Phonography, More by Jerome Bird Howard (1919)
"(a) The tick-A used as a logogram for he, which when standing alone is invariably
... I.—The logogram for / _ may be reduced to its first stroke whenever a ..."
2. The Phonographic Magazine by Jerome Bird Howard, Phonographic Institute Company (1906)
"... years-later (downward *}, years-old lisht in the summer of 1904, the pro-
Two-years, two-years-ago, two-years-after, posed logogram was adopted therein, ..."
3. A Manual of Phonography, Or, Writing by Sound: A Natural Method of Writing by Isaac Pitman (1845)
"When a logogram represents a verb in the present tense, the past tense, if formed
regularly ... The same logogram may be used for the adjective and adverb, ..."
4. Eclectic Manual of Phonography: A Complete Guide to the Acquisition of by Elias Longley (1889)
"logogram, from loyo*, word, ... is represented by a logogram; as do is the ...
represented by the logogram | (/. ..."
5. The Phonographic Magazine and National Shorthand Reporter by Jerome Bird Howard (1904)
"In phrase-writing the logogram / may be written in full or contracted to its ...
In phrase-writing the logogram how may be contracted to its first half, ..."
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