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Ideography

Iˊde-og′ra-phy

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Noun.

The representation of ideas independently of sounds, or in an ideographic manner, as sometimes is done in shorthand writing, etc.

Definition 2025

ideography

ideography

English

Noun

ideography ‎(plural ideographies)

The use of ideograms.
logography

Related terms

Translations

use of ideograms

Chinese:
Mandarin: 表意文字 (zh) ‎(biǎoyìwénzi)
Finnish: ideografia
French: idéographie (fr) f

German: Ideographie (de) f
Greek: ιδεογραφία (el) f ‎(ideografía)
Japanese: 表意文字 ‎(ひょういもじ, hyōimoji)
Russian: идеогра́фия (ru) f ‎(ideográfija), иерогли́фика (ru) f ‎(ijeroglífika)

logography

Chinese:
Mandarin:
Finnish: ideografia, käsitekirjoitus

Greek: ιδεογραφία (el) f ‎(ideografía)
Russian: логогра́фия (ru) f ‎(logográfija)