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logogram

American

[law-guh-gram, log-uh-] / ˈlɔ gəˌgræm, ˈlɒg ə- /

noun

Linguistics. a symbol that represents an entire word directly rather than representing a speech sound, such as a Chinese character.
a conventional, abbreviated symbol for a frequently recurring word or phrase, such as the symbol & for the word and.

logogram British

/ ˈlɒɡəˌɡræm /

noun

a single symbol representing an entire morpheme, word, or phrase, as for example the symbol (%) meaning per cent

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Etymology

Origin of logogram

First recorded in 1810–20; logo- + -gram ¹

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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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