lexigraph

A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.

Noun

  1. A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.
    • "Be that as it may, it is certain that the lexigraph for hayashi is not a Japanese creation, but a nowadays-forgotten Chinese character..." - 2006, Noël J. Nickson, Laurence E. R. Picken, Music from the Tang Court: Some...
    • "He does not want them to be read as we might read a lexigraph, a postmodern painting of words such as Joseph Kosuth's red..." - 2006, James A.W. Heffernan, “Speaking for Pictures”, in Writing and Seeing: Essays on Word...

Origin

From lexi- + -graph.

Forms

lexigraphs

Related

semasiograph logogram

Derived

lexigraphic lexigraphical lexigraphy