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A logogram is a single written character which represents a complete grammatical word.
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A hieroglyph used as a logogram defines the object of which it is an image.
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Because of its ubiquity, it is generally no longer considered a ligature, but a logogram.
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A logogram is a written character which represents a word or morpheme.
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It may be a pictogram or ideogram, or part of a writing system such as a syllable, or a logogram.
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The vertical stroke below the hieroglyph is a common way of indicating that a glyph is working as a logogram.
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Another feature of logograms is that a single logogram may be used by a plurality of languages to represent words with similar meanings.
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A logogram did not necessarily originate from the lexical form of the word in Aramaic, it could also come from a declined or conjugated Aramaic form.
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Though not an inherent feature of logograms but due to its unique history of development, Japanese has the added complication that almost every logogram has more than one pronunciation.
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- A single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation; "7 is a logogram that is pronounced `seven' in English and `nanatsu' in Japanese"
- A logogram, or logograph, is a grapheme which represents a word or a morpheme (the smallest meaningful unit of language). This stands in contrast to phonograms, which represent phonemes (speech sounds) or combinations of phonemes, and determinatives, which mark semantic categories.
- A character or symbol that represents a word or phrase (e.g. a character of the Chinese writing system); A graphical symbol representing a concept or thing, as in roadside signs; a logo
- (Logograms) [from Greek logos words + gramma letter] A single letter or other sign representing a whole word. ...
- Pictograph of a concrete or abstract reality.
- A word sign used in logography. Not *Ideogram. In English, for example, the signs 2 (two, second), $ (dollar). See also Primary, Associative, and Diagrammatic Signs, Semantic Indicator, Phonetic Transfer, and Phonetic Indicator.
