| 单词 | word-sign |
| 释义 | > as lemmasword-sign word-sign n. something used to represent a word; esp. a graphic character representing a complete word; = logogram n. 2b; cf. word-symbol n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > character representing a word per se1596 monogram1801 word-sign1842 word-symbol1852 word-type1866 letterword1927 logogram1933 1842 Brit. Mag. & Monthly Reg. July 34 A system of word-signs or verbal phonetics does not differ from a system of letter-signs or elementary phonetics. 1900 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 30 156 As regards word-signs, in general the connection of the meaning of the word with the picture is obvious enough once it is pointed out. 1908 G. K. Chesterton Man who was Thursday ix. 165 It did not take him long to learn how he might convey simple messages by what would seem to be idle taps upon a table or knee... ‘We must have several word-signs,..words that we are likely to want.’ 1964 P. A. D. MacCarthy in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 162 Four uniliteral ‘word-signs’ for the, of, and, to, are standard. 1991 Jrnl. Theol. Stud. 42 112 Scribes sometimes wrote a Sumerian word-sign, reading it in Akkadian, and sometimes spelt out the same word syllabically in Akkadian. < as lemmas |
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