logogram
Americannoun
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Linguistics. a symbol that represents an entire word directly rather than representing a speech sound, such as a Chinese character.
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a conventional, abbreviated symbol for a frequently recurring word or phrase, such as the symbol & for the word and.
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The logogram belongs in the neon sign in the window of Russ & Daughters, a family catering firm whose shop is known, because of its cured salmon, as "the Louvre of lox".
From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2011
Related to the graphs—their cousins in fact—are the grams: telegram, radiogram, cryptogram, anagram, monogram, diagram, logogram, program, epigram, kilogram, ungrammatical.
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor
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