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
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 Armstrong, Walter, Sir
Ki is the ideographic form for earth and the natural consort to an all-embracing upper power is a power that “embraces all that is below.”
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia
When documents in the old language, or at least written in the primitive ideographic characters, are attacked, the process is one of divination rather than of translation in the strict sense of the word.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir
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