Meaning

2 senses
  1. A character or symbol (usually nonalphanumeric) that represents a word or phrase.

    Near-synonyms: (polysemic, sometimes synonymous) lexigram; lexigraph

    Logogramm

    логогра́ммаlogográmma

    a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation

  2. A kind of word puzzle: a logogriph.

Examples

13 sentences
  1. You don't really want to learn logograms, do you?

  2. Many logograms are just graphical idiomatic expressions, "figures of speech."

  3. Some are beginning to think that wealth comes from knowing logograms.

  4. A language which has both logograms and phonograms has aesthetic value.

  5. His language is a hodgepodge of logograms and phonograms, which everyone learns in school.

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
character or symbol that represents a word or phrase:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
character or symbol that represents a word or phrase:

Origin

From logo- + -gram.

From logo- + -gram.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: logograms
Singularlogogram
Plurallogograms

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation:logograph

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
logogram — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto