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
Writing and painting merge in the art of Victor Ekpuk, whose bold work employs symbols from Nsibidi, a West African ideographic system.
From Washington Post
Google says the new keyboard supports 82 languages and believes it will be most useful for ideographic languages like Chinese, which are often constrained to a single dialect on traditional keyboards.
From Time
And given the ideographic nature of each character in Mandarin, ample room for experimentation, playfulness and innovation.
From Forbes
These are preserved in the gesture-signs, ideographic types, images, and myths scattered over the world.
From Project Gutenberg
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