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...
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Egyptian hieroglyphs (section Logograms)
[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...
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Im (jötunn), a giant in Norse mythology IM, a cuneiform sign used as a logogram to represent names of weather gods, including Mesopotamian Ishkur/Adad...
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Kaidā glyphs (redirect from Kaidā logogram)
Examples of Kaidā logograms (from Sasamori, 1893)...
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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...
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Dictionary states that the term 'logo' used in 1937 "probably a shortening of logogram". Numerous inventions and techniques have contributed to the contemporary...
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sterling', and ⟨©⟩ 'copyright'. Ideograms are not to be equated with logograms, which represent specific morphemes in a language. In a broad sense, ideograms...
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syllabograms and more limited use of logograms than Akkadian. Urartian, in comparison, retained a more significant role for logograms. Neo-Assyrian cuneiform syllabary...
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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)...
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Yi script (redirect from Yi logograms)
You may need rendering support to display the uncommon Unicode characters in this article correctly. The Yi scripts (Yi: ꆈꌠꁱꂷ nuosu bburma [nɔ̄sβ̩ bβ̠̩mā];...
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Pahlavi scripts (section Logograms)
of: written Imperial Aramaic, from which Pahlavi derives its script, logograms, and some of its vocabulary. spoken Middle Iranian, from which Pahlavi...
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za. Transliteration of logograms is conventionally the term represented in Latin, in capital letters (e.g. PES for the logogram for "foot"). The syllabograms...
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Akkadian Empire, Babylonians, and Assyrians as Ishtar (and occasionally the logogram 𒌋𒁯). Her primary title is "the Queen of Heaven". She was the patron goddess...
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Sumerian cuneiform character or group of characters as an ideogram or logogram rather than a syllabogram in the graphic representation of a language other...
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Sawndip (redirect from Zhuang logogram)
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...
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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...
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represent the syllable ka whenever the pronunciation of a logogram needed to be indicated. Many logograms have an ideographic component (Chinese "radicals",...
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/ˈdiː/), 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...
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writing system, the representation of the word ajaw could be as either a logogram, or spelled-out syllabically. In either case, quite a few glyphic variants...
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complement is a phonetic symbol used to disambiguate word characters (logograms) that have multiple readings, in mixed logographic-phonetic scripts such...
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system, combining a syllabary of phonetic signs representing syllables with logogram representing entire words. Among the writing systems of the Pre-Columbian...
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in Western order. Unlike other East Asian countries, the syllables or logograms of given names are not hyphenated or compounded but instead separated...
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Olmec hieroglyphs Logogram Syllabogram Mixe–Zoque languages Isthmus of Tehuantepec 1500 BCE – 400 BCE Extinct Zapotec script Logogram Syllabogram Zapotecan...
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unit of meaning, many different logograms are required in order to write all the words of a language. If the logograms do not adequately represent all...
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realized the script was wholly alphabetic and not the combination of logograms and syllabics as in Egyptian script proper. He thus assumed that the inscriptions...
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revival of the Maya glyph system.[citation needed] Maya writing used logograms complemented with a set of syllabic glyphs, somewhat similar in function...
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correspond to the Sumerian phrase Kan dig̃irak. The sign 𒆍 (KÁ) is the logogram for "gate", 𒀭 (DIG̃IR) means "god", and 𒊏 (RA) represents the coda of...
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Chinese, writing scripts used for Chinese languages Chinese characters, logograms used for the writing of East Asian languages Chinese cuisine, styles of...
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) Some Sumerian logograms were written with multiple cuneiform signs. These logograms are called diri-spellings, after the logogram 𒋛𒀀 DIRI which is...
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