In a written language, a logogram (from Ancient Greek logos 'word', and gramma 'that which is drawn or written'), also logograph or lexigraph, is a written...

boxes, or other symbols. The ampersand, also known as the and sign, is the logogram &, representing the conjunction "and". It originated as a ligature of the...

[clarification needed] A hieroglyph used as a logogram defines the object of which it is an image. Logograms are therefore the most frequently used common...

revival of the Maya glyph system.[citation needed] Maya writing used logograms complemented with a set of syllabic glyphs, somewhat similar in function...

sterling', and ⟨©⟩ 'copyright'. Ideograms are not to be equated with logograms, which represent specific morphemes in a language. In a broad sense, ideograms...

Examples of Kaidā logograms (from Sasamori, 1893[citation needed])...

This article contains the Yi Syllabary script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Yi Syllabary...

of: written Imperial Aramaic, from which Pahlavi derives its script, logograms, and some of its vocabulary. spoken Middle Iranian, from which Pahlavi...

⽣ 'LIFE' radicals. At present, there are limitations in displaying Zhuang logograms as many have only recently been encoded in Unicode and are only supported...

complement is a phonetic symbol used to disambiguate word characters (logograms) that have multiple readings, in mixed logographic-phonetic scripts such...

plural emoji or emojis; Japanese: 絵文字, pronounced [emoꜜʑi]) is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram, or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and...

system that combines ideographic writing with Nahuatl specific phonetic logograms and syllabic signs which was used in central Mexico by the Nahua people...

the Sumerian word an ('sky' or 'heaven'); its use was then extended to a logogram for the word diĝir ('god' or 'goddess') and the supreme deity of the Sumerian...

Sumerian cuneiform character or group of characters as an ideogram or logogram rather than a syllabogram in the graphic representation of a language other...

Chinese, writing scripts used for Chinese languages Chinese characters, logograms used for the writing of East Asian languages Chinese cuisine, styles of...

from Sumerian and Aramaic respectively. It refers to a special type of logogram or ideogram borrowed from another language (in which it may have been either...

upon closer inspection realized the script was not the combination of logograms and syllabics as in Egyptian script proper. He thus assumed that the inscriptions...

represent the number one (e.g., Roman numeral (I ), Chinese numeral (一)) are logograms. These symbols directly represent the concept of 'one' without breaking...

and in the Middle Babylonian period his name started to function as a logogram representing Nergal. Temples dedicated to him existed in Isin and Girsu...

syllabograms and more limited use of logograms than Akkadian. Urartian, in comparison, retained a more significant role for logograms. Neo-Assyrian cuneiform syllabary...

Symbol in a logogram indicating meaning...

'logo' dates back to 1937, and that the term was "probably a shortening of logogram". Numerous inventions and techniques have contributed to the contemporary...

Avant Garde was a magazine notable for graphic and logogram design by Herb Lubalin. The magazine had 14 issues and was published from January 1968 to July...

words), or may serve as phonetic complements to a logogram (used to specify the sound of a logogram that might otherwise represent more than one word)...

), plural dees. The Semitic letter Dāleth may have developed from the logogram for a fish or a door. There are many different Egyptian hieroglyphs that...

za. Transliteration of logograms is conventionally the term represented in Latin, in capital letters (e.g. PES for the logogram for "foot"). The syllabograms...

(Assyrian-Babylonian) god Adad. Adad and Iškur are usually written with the logogram 𒀭𒅎 dIM - the same symbol used for the Hurrian god Teshub. Hadad was also...

(Ninsianna) in god lists. In a Hittite ritual she was identified by the logogram dIŠTAR and Shamash, Suen and Ningal were referred to as her family; Enki...

noteworthy as he was illiterate until its creation. He first experimented with logograms, but his system later developed into the syllabary. In his system, each...

shorthand is phonemic: with the exception of abbreviated shapes called logograms, the forms represent the sounds of the English word, rather than its spelling...