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
- 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.