ideogram

A picture or symbol which represents the idea of something without indicating the sequence of sounds used to pronounce it. Examples include digits, traffic signs, and graphic symbols such as @.

Noun

  1. A picture or symbol which represents the idea of something without indicating the sequence of sounds used to pronounce it. Examples include digits, traffic signs, and graphic symbols such as @.
    • Pensé tatuarme un ideograma secreto en mi hombro. - 2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 99:

    Synonyms: ideograph semasiograph

    Coordinate Terms: logogram pictogram pictograph hieroglyph logograph lexigram lexigraph

Origin

From ideo- + -gram.

Forms

ideograms ideogramme

Derived

ideogrammatic ideogrammatically ideogrammic