ideographic
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- adjective
- /ˌaɪdiəˈɡræfɪk/
- Specialized
:
ideográfico
- Chinese characters are often ideographic, representing meanings or concepts rather than individual sounds.
- ideographic script
- ideographic characters
Examples
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However, for other students, secondary interventions, which are not ideographic in nature, may not be sufficient.
Academic text (1999) -
The first version of Bamum contained more than 400 pictographic and ideographic characters.
Academic text (2007) -
The ideographic characters this name took are of great interest here.
Academic text (2003) -
However, there is the danger that highly ideographic factors may be influencing a student's behavior.
Academic text (2014) -
From this ideographic perspective, in the area of avoidance, three categories emerged: physical, verbal, and interaction.
Academic text (2014) -
Therefore, some characters strongly retain their pictographic roots, while most other characters are only partially ideographic.
Academic text (2006) -
"My first observation is that the Jaradan written language is ideographic, like the ancient High Vulcan texts or the traditional Japanese forms of Earth."
Fiction book (1992) -
The vast majority of characters, less frequently used, are a compound of an ideographic constituent and a phonographic constituent.
Academic text (2006) -
Juxtaposition of ideographic and pictographic radicals is a key aspect of the formation of Kanji.
Academic text (2006) -
Some are phonetic alphabets, in which letters or characters represent the sounds of a language, while others are ideographic, comprising abstract symbols that convey concepts, ideas, or things.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
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4.3
A way of showing meaning using a color, object or action
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Uses pictures or symbols to show information
Writing that uses signs to show ideas, like Chinese characters
The meaning of pictures and symbols in art or media
Antonyms
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ideographic comes from idea 'idea' and graph 'to write', so it literally means 'writing ideas'. That's why ideographic symbols are pictures or signs that show an idea rather than a sound.