Logogram

Ancient Chinese characters, saying "uncooked"

A logogram or logograph is a grapheme (or symbol) which represents a word or morpheme in a language. This is contrasted with a phonogram, which is a symbol that represents a sound.

Logogram Media

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  Egyptian hieroglyphs, including logograms such as the sun disk (⊙, visible several times here)

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  Page from Newly Compiled Four Character Dictionary (新編對相四言), a 1436 Ming Dynasty primer on Chinese characters.

Related pages

• Ideogram
• Hieroglyph
• Logo