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
Young appears to have started with the idea, then generally current, that hieroglyphic symbols were purely ideographic, each sign representing a word.
From Heroes of Science: Physicists by Garnett, William
Here we see the most marked effort to avoid the ideographic element and picture signs, and to extend the use of the phonetic symbols.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max
Although the use of the ideographic script became well known from the fifth century, everything goes to show that no written law existed at that time, or, indeed, for many years afterwards.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)
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