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单词 ideograph
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Definition of ideograph in English:

ideograph

noun ˈʌɪdɪə(ʊ)ɡrɑːfˈɪdɪə(ʊ)ɡrɑːfˈidēəˌɡrafˈīdēəˌɡraf
  • another term for ideogram
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In Afrikan Alphabets, the author introduces a number of ideographs, pictographs and scripts devised and designed by Africans to express and represent a voice sound, a word, or an idea.
    • Some pictographs were used as ideographs because they have different semantic meanings.
    • Later to create more words, symbols were added to pictographs to form ideographs.
    • Then ten years of school for learning the first thousand Chinese kanji ideographs, with thousands more to go.
    • The Bronze Age engravings in this region are symbolic pictograms, without any attempt at realism; there is also no indication that they should be evaluated as hieroglyphs or ideographs.

Derivatives

  • ideographic

  • adjective ʌɪdɪə(ʊ)ˈɡrafɪkɪdɪə(ʊ)ˈɡrafɪk
    • Their system was an integrated technology of stylus, clay, and cuneiform that was at first pictographic and became in due course ideographic and syllabographic.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Ancient Egyptians developed a pictographic and ideographic writing system known as hieroglyphics.
      • Kanji characters, on the other hand, are ideographic, and often have several pronunciations and multiple meanings.
      • Object-naming tasks employ pictures, and kanji characters are ideographic and sometimes pictorial in nature.
      • The sad truth is that even chimpanzees and rats can learn to read simple ideographic language.
  • ideography

  • noun ɪdɪˈɒɡrəfiʌɪdɪˈɒɡrəfi
    • In traditional ideography, each of these has a distinct character.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There was no resemblance to the Greek alphabet English utilises; more like a coalition of Egyptian hieroglyphics and Chinese ideography.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from Greek idea 'form' + -graph.

Definition of ideograph in US English:

ideograph

nounˈidēəˌɡrafˈīdēəˌɡraf
  • another term for ideogram
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In Afrikan Alphabets, the author introduces a number of ideographs, pictographs and scripts devised and designed by Africans to express and represent a voice sound, a word, or an idea.
    • Later to create more words, symbols were added to pictographs to form ideographs.
    • The Bronze Age engravings in this region are symbolic pictograms, without any attempt at realism; there is also no indication that they should be evaluated as hieroglyphs or ideographs.
    • Then ten years of school for learning the first thousand Chinese kanji ideographs, with thousands more to go.
    • Some pictographs were used as ideographs because they have different semantic meanings.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from Greek idea ‘form’ + -graph.

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