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ideograph|ˈɪdiːəʊgrɑːf, -æ-, aɪ-|
Also erron. ideagraph.
[f. as ideogram + -graph.]
A character or figure symbolizing the idea of a thing, without expressing the name of it, as the Chinese characters and most Egyptian hieroglyphics.
1835–40Hincks On Hieroglyphics (MS. B.M., Egypt. Antiq., 19 e), Hieroglyphic characters are either ideographs, that is, representations of ideas, or phonographs, that is, representations of sounds. 1838Blackw. Mag. XLIII. 652 The old Egyptians in their hieroglyphics did..signify a wise..man by the symbolic representation or ideagraph of a nose. 1883Sayce Fresh Light fr. Anc. Mon. 16 The frequent employment of ideographs, which denoted ideas and not sounds. Ibid. 19 Thus in English, the ideograph + may be pronounced ‘plus’, ‘added to’, or ‘more’, according to the pleasure of the reader. 1911Encycl. Brit. XV. 172 The usual charge for advertisement is from 7d. to one shilling per line of 22 ideographs (about nine words). 1951H. Kenner Poetry E. Pound 89 The Chinese ideograph, like the metaphor, deals in exceedingly condensed juxtapositions. 1972Computers & Humanities VI. 259 There is a basic corpus of 2,444 morphemes, each corresponding to a single Chinese logograph (ideograph). |