IDEOGRAPH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ideograph mean? 

• IDEOGRAPH (noun)
  The noun IDEOGRAPH has 1 sense:

1. a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it

  Familiarity information: IDEOGRAPH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IDEOGRAPH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

ideogram; ideograph

Context example:

Chinese characters are ideograms

Hypernyms ("ideograph" is a kind of...):

character; graph; grapheme; graphic symbol (a written symbol that is used to represent speech)

Meronyms (parts of "ideograph"):

radical (a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ideograph"):

logogram; logograph (a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation)