logograph
- noun
- /ˈloʊɡəˌɡræf/
- Specialized
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logograma
- To say that Kanji are logographs means that the majority of characters correspond to words (and parts of words).
Examples
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In studies that have compared remembering Chinese characters (or logographs) with remembering English words, the logographs have tended to be remembered more easily, but only by Chinese speakers who are already familiar with them (Liu, 1995).
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Because of their iconic and metaphoric nature, an examination of Kanji logographs provides a deeper understanding of the cognitive role of written language in poetic texts.
Academic text (2006) -
In the context of the present discussion, logographs are of particular importance because they function as a cognitive medium for poetry.
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Shiji-moji are also logographs because they correspond to the words expressing the concepts represented by the graphic shape of the characters.
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Besides, ... 'to cross water,' in Sado..., the name of the island, seems important because this logograph means 'to cross.' As the background history and the legend show, both 'rough sea' and 'the Milky Way' are obstacles for the loved ones "crossing" for their meeting.
Academic text (2006) -
Further, the decomposed parts of Kanji are either pictograms, ideograms, or logographs; hence, iconicity plays an important role in the generation of their meaning.
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The present study tries to reevaluate this sharp insight of Fenollosa into the nature of Chinese logographs as a medium for poetry and to place it in the new context of cognitive poetics.
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Other types of character include ideographs, which can represent concrete objects and events as well as abstract ideas, and logographs, which are similar to ideographs but are related more to the sound rather than the meaning of a character (Nth, 1990).
Academic text (2013) -
In studies that have compared remembering Chinese characters (or logographs) with remembering English words, the logographs have tended to be remembered more easily, but only by Chinese speakers who are already familiar with them (Liu, 1995).
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In written Chinese, each logograph represents a complete word, making the language distinct from phonetic alphabets.
Synonyms
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A written symbol that stands for a whole word or phrase
Surface Forms
Morphology
logograph = logo + graph
The word is built from classical combining forms meaning roughly 'word' and 'writing', but the elements are not fully transparent as ordinary standalone English words.
Etymology
The word logograph comes from two parts: logo- meaning 'word' and -graph meaning 'write' or 'mark', the same -graph you see in photograph. So a logograph is a single written sign that stands for a whole word or phrase, not a sound.