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...

[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...

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...

Examples of Kaidā logograms (from Sasamori, 1893)...

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...

Dictionary states that the term 'logo' used in 1937 "probably a shortening of logogram". Numerous inventions and techniques have contributed to the contemporary...

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

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

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)...

You may need rendering support to display the uncommon Unicode characters in this article correctly. The Yi scripts (Yi: ꆈꌠꁱꂷ nuosu bburma [nɔ̄sβ̩ bβ̠̩mā];...

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

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

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...

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

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...

Symbol in a logogram indicating meaning...

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...

represent the syllable ka whenever the pronunciation of a logogram needed to be indicated. Many logograms have an ideographic component (Chinese "radicals",...

/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...

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...

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

system, combining a syllabary of phonetic signs representing syllables with logogram representing entire words. Among the writing systems of the Pre-Columbian...

in Western order. Unlike other East Asian countries, the syllables or logograms of given names are not hyphenated or compounded but instead separated...

Olmec hieroglyphs Logogram Syllabogram Mixe–Zoque languages Isthmus of Tehuantepec 1500 BCE – 400 BCE Extinct Zapotec script Logogram Syllabogram Zapotecan...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

) Some Sumerian logograms were written with multiple cuneiform signs. These logograms are called diri-spellings, after the logogram 𒋛𒀀 DIRI which is...