ideographic
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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
These are preserved in the gesture-signs, ideographic types, images, and myths scattered over the world.
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook
They had gone upon the supposition, that the hieroglyphic method of writing must, of necessity, be ideographic, i. e. figurative or symbolical, and that each of these signs was the expression of an idea.
From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
The horror of a curve is pushed so far that even the sun, which is represented by a circle in Egyptian and other ideographic systems, is here a lozenge.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Sir Walter Armstrong
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