logogram
A character or symbol (usually nonalphanumeric) that represents a word or phrase.
Noun
- A character or symbol (usually nonalphanumeric) that represents a word or phrase.
- Near-synonyms: (polysemic, sometimes synonymous) lexigram; lexigraph
Synonyms: logograph lexigram lexigraph
Coordinate Terms: ideogram ideograph pictogram semasiograph
- A kind of word puzzle: a logogriph.
Origin
From logo- + -gram.
Forms
Related
logographic logographical logographically logography logotype