ideographic
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- ideographical adjective
- ideographically adverb
- non-ideographic adjective
Example Sentences
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My analysis suggests that these khipus may be logosyllabic, meaning that they record their messages through a combination of phonetic and ideographic symbols.
From Scientific American • Nov. 11, 2017
Between the 5th and 8th centuries, Japan imported from China its ideographic writing, its Buddhist religion, its form of government organization and codes of law.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only the ideographic values of the characters are given, but they are mostly correct.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
Thence the difficulty of substituting our phonetic alphabet for the ideographic characters of the Chinese, as well as for the ideophonetic writing partly borrowed by the Annamese from the letters of the celestial empire.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
It is possible that some characters had a value in Elam not known in Babylonia, or ideographic values not yet recognized.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)
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