Definition of IDEOGRAM

Other Words from ideogram

ideogramic or ideogrammic \ ˌi-dē-ə-ˈgra-mik

, ˌī- \ adjective

ideogrammatic \ ˌi-dē-ō-grə-ˈma-tik

, ˌī- \ adjective

Examples of ideogram in a Sentence

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Derived from an ancient African writing system, the ideograms are an Ekpuk trademark. — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, "This free, D.C.-wide festival includes an interactive selfie installation and a traveling art barge," 13 June 2019 And while there are tiny web and smartphones ideograms for everything from soup to nuts, there are very few that are specifically Jewish. — Marcy Oster, sun-sentinel.com, "Organization is working to make a Torah emoji happen," 5 June 2019 Emojis might be connected in some respects to Egyptian hieroglyphs or Chinese ideograms. — Crispin Sartwell, WSJ, "Texting and Twitter Make This a Golden Age for the Written Word," 22 Sep. 2017 The emoji is heir to a tradition of pictographic writing stretching back millennia to Egyptian hieroglyphics and the ideograms used to write Chinese and Japanese. — Washington Post, "AP Interview: Japan’s emoji creator saw nuance in pictures," 21 Sep. 2017 There, Chinese kites shaped like Buzz Lightyear and Slinky Dog hung from the ceiling; Chinese ideograms identified the different kinds of pastry. — Julie Lasky, New York Times, "At Shanghai Disney Resort, Mulan, Mickey and Dumplings," 4 July 2017 Of getting lost in who people think you are!’ A prizefighter’s journey is an existentialist ideogram for life, and the real fight, the real fifteen rounds, occurs in the heart, at home. — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, "Liev Schreiber Finds the Heart of Chuck Wepner," 22 May 2017 No, not changing in a way that means the language is abandoning the alphabet and regressing back to ideograms— — Nick Stockton, WIRED, "Emoji—Trendy Slang or a Whole New Language?," 24 June 2015

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