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Grapheme which represents a word or a morpheme
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
Logogram
Symbol representing the word "and" (&)
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
Ampersand
Ancient Egyptian writing system
[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
Egyptian_hieroglyphs
Writing system of the Maya civilization
developments encouraging a revival of the Maya glyph system. Maya writing used logograms complemented with a set of syllabic glyphs, somewhat similar in function
Maya_script
Script of various Middle Iranian languages
needed] written Imperial Aramaic, from which Pahlavi derives its script, logograms, and some of its vocabulary. spoken Middle Iranian, from which Pahlavi
Pahlavi_scripts
Use of Sumerian cuneiform
Sumerian cuneiform character or group of characters as an ideogram or logogram rather than a syllabogram in the graphic representation of a language other
Sumerogram
Symbol that represents an idea or concept
sterling', and ⟨©⟩ 'copyright'. Ideograms are not to be equated with logograms, which represent specific morphemes in a language. In a broad sense, ideograms
Ideogram
Writing system
Words may be written logographically, phonetically, mixed (that is, a logogram with a phonetic complement), and may be preceded by a determinative. Other
Anatolian_hieroglyphs
Writing system for the Zhuang language
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
Sawndip
Script used to write the Yi languages
This article contains the Yi Syllabary script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Yi Syllabary
Yi_script
Symbols for emotional cues in text
emoji or emojis; Japanese: 絵文字, pronounced [emoꜜ(d)ʑi]) is a pictogram, logogram, or ideogram embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages
Emoji
Pronunciation guide accompanying logographic writing
complement is a phonetic symbol used to disambiguate word characters (logograms) that have multiple readings, in mixed logographic-phonetic scripts such
Phonetic_complement
Set of pictograms once used in the Yaeyama Islands of southwestern Japan
Examples of Kaidā logograms (from Sasamori, 1893[citation needed])
Kaidā_glyphs
Symbol in a logogram indicating meaning
Symbol in a logogram indicating meaning
Determinative
Cuneiform sign of deities and sky
the Sumerian word an ('sky' or 'heaven'); its use was then extended to a logogram for the word diĝir ('god' or 'goddess') and the supreme deity of the Sumerian
Dingir
Fourth letter of the Latin alphabet
), 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
D
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)
List_of_writing_systems
Graphic mark representing an entity
'logo' dates back to 1937, and that the term was "probably a shortening of logogram". Numerous inventions and techniques have contributed to the contemporary
Logo
Writing system
marks are taken from European usage. The oldest Vai texts used various logograms. Of these, only ꘓ and ꘘ are still in use. Modern <ka>; at the time now-obsolete
Vai_syllabary
Semitic storm god
(Assyrian-Babylonian) god Adad. Adad and Iškur are usually written with the logogram 𒀭𒅎 dIM - the same symbol used for the Hurrian god Teshub. Hadad was also
Hadad
Representation of foreign words in logogram writing systems
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
Heterogram_(linguistics)
Middle Bronze Age script
upon closer inspection realized the script was not the combination of logograms and syllabics as in Egyptian script proper. He thus assumed that the inscriptions
Proto-Sinaitic_script
Writing system of the ancient Near East
syllabograms and more limited use of logograms than Akkadian. Urartian, in comparison, retained a more significant role for logograms. Neo-Assyrian cuneiform syllabary
Cuneiform
Ancient Mesopotamian goddess
(Ninsianna) in god lists. In a Hittite ritual she was identified by the logogram dIŠTAR and Shamash, Suen and Ningal were referred to as her family; Enki
Inanna
Overall image of a corporation, firm or business
In general, this amounts to a corporate title, logo (logotype and/or logogram) and supporting devices commonly assembled within a set of corporate guidelines
Corporate_identity
Topics referred to by the same term
Chinese, writing scripts used for Chinese languages Chinese characters, logograms used for the writing of East Asian languages Chinese cuisine, styles of
Chinese
Magazine
Avant Garde was a magazine notable for graphic and logogram design by Herb Lubalin. The magazine had 14 issues and was published from January 1968 to July
Avant-Garde_(magazine)
Pre-Columbian Maya political title
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
Ajaw
Writing system invented by Sequoyah to write the Cherokee language
noteworthy as he was illiterate until its creation. He first experimented with logograms, but his system later developed into the syllabary. In his system, each
Cherokee_syllabary
System of shorthand for English, developed by Isaac Pitman
shorthand is phonemic: with the exception of abbreviated shapes called logograms, the forms represent the sounds of the English word, rather than its spelling
Pitman_shorthand
Mesopotamian sun god
origin is uncertain. The most common writing of the sun god's name was the logogram dUTU, which could be read as Utu, Shamash, or, as attested in the god list
Shamash
Natural number
represent the number one (e.g., Roman numeral (I ), Chinese numeral (一)) are logograms. These symbols directly represent the concept of 'one' without breaking
1
Early proto-writing system
whole combines numerical signs and logograms: the numerical signs are written first (at the top), while the logograms can be placed arbitrarily, although
Proto-cuneiform
Undeciphered writing system of ancient Crete
subscript numbers): The following list contains some frequent ideograms/logograms whose meaning is known and uncontroversial and almost all of which are
Linear_A
Persistent representation of language
logography is written using logograms – written characters which represent individual words or morphemes. Many logograms have internal structures, with
Writing
Convention of symbols representing language
logograms do not adequately represent all meanings and words of a language, written language can be confusing or ambiguous to the reader. Logograms are
Writing_system
Ancient Mesopotamian city in Iraq
corresponding 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
Babylon
Alleged deciphering of unknown symbols on the Phaistos Disc
as the logogram 'sol suus', the winged sun known from Luwian royal seals. Sign 12 (SHIELD) is compared to the near identical Luwian logogram 'TURPI'
Phaistos Disc decipherment claims
Phaistos_Disc_decipherment_claims
Mesopotamian god of death
regarded as a pair of twins, his own name could be represented by the logogram dMAŠ.TAB.BA and its variant dMAŠ.MAŠ, both of them originally meaning "(divine)
Nergal
Cuneiform sign
cuneiform texts (for example Hittite texts). its most common usage is for the logogram "É", which in the Akkadian language is bītu, (for English: "house"), (and
É_(cuneiform)
Anonymous dictionary of mostly Aramaic logograms with Middle Persian translations
فرهنگ پهلوی) is the title of an anonymous dictionary of mostly Aramaic logograms with Middle Persian translations (in Pahlavi script) and transliterations
Frahang-i_Pahlavig
Mesoamerican civilization (c. 2000 BC – 1697 AD)
system, combining a syllabary of phonetic signs representing syllables with logogram representing entire words. Among the writing systems of the Pre-Columbian
Maya_civilization
Uto-Aztecan language of Mexico
not represent particular words), logograms which represent whole words (instead of phonemes or syllables), and logograms used only for their sound values
Nahuatl
Writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform
pictograms. Pictograms are symbols that express a pictorial concept, a logogram, as the meaning of the word. Early writing also began in Ancient Egypt
Clay_tablet
Language family spoken in Mesoamerica
logosyllabic, in which symbols (glyphs or graphemes) can be used as either logograms or syllables. The script has a complete syllabary (although not all possible
Mayan_languages
Glyph combining two or more letterforms
of its ubiquity, it is generally no longer considered a ligature, but a logogram. Like many other ligatures, it has at times been considered a letter (e
Ligature_(writing)
Region in the ancient Near East
translate the Sumerian expression SA.GAZ, which is normally thought to be a logogram for habiru, 'Hebrews'. Thus there is some reason to question the identity
Canaan
System used by the ancient Mayan civilization to represent numbers and dates
pointed, oblong "bread" representations are calligraphic variants of the PET logogram, approximately meaning "circular" or "rounded", and perhaps the basis of
Maya_numerals
Oldest attested stage of the Japanese language
system that employs Chinese characters as syllabograms or (occasionally) logograms. The language featured a few phonological differences from later forms
Old_Japanese
Topics referred to by the same term
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
IM
Chinese-based script for Khitan language
"able to record any word." While small-script inscriptions employed some logograms as well, most words in small script were made using a blocked system reminiscent
Khitan_small_script
Star polygon
a Sumerian cuneiform eight-pointed ideogram meaning "sky" and later a logogram for a deity is U+1202D 𒀭. The 8-pointed diffraction spikes of the star
Octagram
Ancient Mesopotamian, Ugaritic and Egyptian war goddess
BCE. In 1990, Nadav Na'aman suggested that in the Amarna letters, the logogram dNIN.URTA, which appears in the entire corpus only four times and has been
Anat
Ancient Near Eastern moon god
name known from a text written in the standard cuneiform script uses the logogram d30 as the theophoric element, but it is not certain if it refers to Yarikh
Yarikh
Pre-Columbian writing system for Nahuatl
the Zapotec languages. The Maya script consists of a similar mixture of logograms and a syllabary, which has led researchers to suspect that the two groups
Aztec_script
Hieroglyphs representing three consonants
their consonantal values. This use as phonograms contrasts with use as logograms, where hieroglyphs represent an entire word depicted by the image of the
Egyptian_triliteral_signs
Earliest attested form of the Korean language
音讀字 및 訓讀字에 대한 硏究 [Study on Unusual Directly-Adopted Logograms and Semantically-Adaopted Logograms)]. 동양학(Dongyang Hak). 15. 단국대학교 동양학연구원: 1–17. Kim, Young-wook
Old_Korean
Mesopotamian lunar god
(𒀭𒀸𒁽𒌓). Additionally, the name of the moon god could be represented by logograms reflecting his lunar character, such as d30 (𒀭𒌍), referring to days
Sin_(mythology)
Symbol representing the Sun
deities (Ra, Horus, Aten etc.) in ancient Egyptian religion. The main logogram for "Sun" was a representation of the solar disk, (Gardiner N5), with or
Solar_symbol
Capital of Iraq
Wall-Romana, is that name of "Baghdad" is derived from "Akkad", as the cuneiform logogram for Akkad (𒀀𒂵𒉈𒆠) is pronounced "a-ga-dèKI" ("Agade") and its resemblance
Baghdad
Ancient Mesopotamian civilization from 3300 to 1900 BC
Shipp, R. Mark (1996). An Akkadian Handbook: Paradigms, Helps, Glossary, Logograms, and Sign List. Eisenbrauns. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-931464-86-7. Piotr Michalowski
Sumer
Abbreviated slang used in text messaging
interpretation of ambiguous shortenings Reactive tokens Pictograms and logograms (rebus abbreviation) Paralinguistic and prosodic features Capitalization
SMS_language
Topics referred to by the same term
hieroglyphics may also refer to: An informal term for a ideogram, lexigram, logogram, or pictogram, such as: Anatolian hieroglyphs Chinese characters Cretan
Hieroglyph_(disambiguation)
Mesopotamian god
and in the Middle Babylonian period his name started to function as a logogram representing Nergal. Temples dedicated to him existed in Isin and Girsu
Ugur_(god)
Extinct Semitic language of Mesopotamia
though logograms for frequent words such as 'god' and 'temple' continued to be used. For this reason, the sign AN can on the one hand be a logogram for the
Akkadian_language
Highest Confucian virtue
moral example and prioritizes the well-being of the people. The single logogram for ren is a composite of two distinct common hanzi, 人 (people or a person)
Ren_(philosophy)
Writing unit that represents a syllable
analogous to letters in alphabets, which represent individual phonemes, or logograms in logographies, which represent morphemes. Syllabograms in the Maya script
Syllabogram
American graphic designer (1914–1996)
company name into two lines, producing a visual harmony that endeared the logogram to Jobs. Jobs was pleased; just prior to Rand's death in 1996, his former
Paul_Rand
Writing the Chinese languages
writing system that transcribes the varieties of Chinese language using logograms — known as characters — and other symbols such as punctuations. Chinese
Written_Chinese
Areas historically influenced by Chinese culture
Writing systems of the Far East Writing system Regions used Logograms Hanzi and its variants China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Vietnam*, Taiwan Dongba symbols
Sinosphere
Language of ancient Minoans written in Cretan hieroglyphs and Linear A syllabary
from Linear A and loanwords in later Greek. For instance, the Linear A logogram for wool 𐛢 is a composite of the syllabic signs 𐙁 (MA) and 𐘘 (RU), a
Minoan_language
Ethnic group of central Mexico and its civilization
system that combined logographic signs with phonetic syllable signs. Logograms would, for example, be the use of an image of a mountain to signify the
Aztecs
Language of ancient Sumer and Babylon
place). Some Sumerian logograms were written with multiple cuneiform signs. These logograms are called diri-spellings, after the logogram 𒋛𒀀 DIRI which is
Sumerian_language
Elamite sun god
legal texts, when dUTU occurs next to Inshushinak, Ruhurater or Simut, the logogram should be read as Nahhunte. The oldest attestation of Nahhunte is the "Treaty
Nahhunte
Orthography of the Esperanto language
lower case. This is supplemented by punctuation marks and by various logograms, such as the digits 0–9, currency signs such as $ € ¥ £ ₷, and mathematical
Esperanto_orthography
Collection of Sumerian hymns
the zame hymn, but it is possible that in the Abu Salabikh god list the logogram dKIŠki refers to him. He was considered a major deity in the Early Dynastic
Zame_Hymns
Belgian artist
known for his painted poems (French: Peinture mots), which he called logograms. He died of tuberculosis in Buizingen. Stewart Home, (1988) The Assault
Christian_Dotremont
Collection of clay tablets from the ancient city of Ebla in Syria
Sumerian logograms marks a momentous advance in the history of writing. From the earlier system developed by Sumerian scribes that used a mix of logograms and
Ebla_tablets
Written set of symbols for syllables or moras of spoken words
former Maya script are largely syllabic in nature, although based on logograms. They are therefore sometimes referred to as logosyllabic. The contemporary
Syllabary
Semitic language
Aramaic subsequently led to the adoption of the Aramaic alphabet and, as logograms, some Aramaic vocabulary in the Pahlavi scripts, which were used by several
Aramaic
Extinct Eastern Iranian language of Central Asia
its close relatives, the Pahlavi scripts, written Sogdian contains many logograms or ideograms, which were Aramaic words that were written to represent
Sogdian_language
Syllabic script used for writing Mycenaean Greek
Textiles in the Linear B Tablets, including Some Considerations on Linear A Logograms and Abbreviations", in C. Michel & M.-L. Nosch (Eds.). Textile Terminologies
Linear_B
Writing system
This article contains Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong Unicode characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols
Nyiakeng_Puachue_Hmong
British-American scientist (born 1959)
screen, such as the code in graphics depicting an analysis of the alien logograms, for which they used the Wolfram Language. Stephen Wolfram (2025). Towards
Stephen_Wolfram
Tactile writing system
French alphabet, but soon various abbreviations (contractions) and even logograms were developed, creating a system much more like shorthand. Today, there
Braille
Alphabet for use with the Sogdian language of central Asia
script. Aramaic logograms also appear in the script, remnants of adapting the Aramaic alphabet to the Sogdian language. These logograms are used mainly
Sogdian_alphabet
Cuneiform sign
The cuneiform sign KÁ, for gate is the Sumerogram-(logogram) used in the Amarna letters and the Epic of Gilgamesh; as just KÁ it means "gate" or "doorway"
KÁ
Name of multiple Mesopotamian deities
of ancestors of Enlil in god lists. This theonym was also employed as a logogram to represent the name of a goddess worshipped in Mari and in Emar on the
Ninkurra
Mesopotamian goddess
she would likely be mentioned shortly after her. In Hittite texts, the logogram GAZ.BA.BA or GAZ.BA.YA represented Ḫuwaššanna, the tutelary goddess of
Gazbaba
Tactile writing system for English
numerals, punctuation, formatting marks, contractions, and abbreviations (logograms). Some English Braille letters, such as ⠿ ⟨for⟩, correspond to more than
English_Braille
Set of letters used to write a given language
provide one sound. These glyphs were used as pronunciation guides for logograms, to write grammatical inflections, and, later, to transcribe loan words
Alphabet
Cuneiform sign
one small added vertical stroke. Besides tur, it is for Sumerograms (logograms) BÀN, DUMU, and TUR. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, it is used in the following
Tur_(cuneiform)
Prestige language of the Yi people
Liangshan (Cool Mountain) dialect Writing system Yi syllabary, formerly Yi logograms Official status Recognised minority language in China (Yunnan province)
Nuosu_language
Language of the ancient Urartu, now the Eastern Anatolia region
Determinateve signs, and ideograms CVC Definition Logogram Urartian reading Definition Logogram Urartian reading BAD 𒁁 King MAN 𒎙 šarri Victim UDU
Urartian_language
2016 American science fiction drama film
written language of the heptapods, consisting of phrases written with logograms, and share the results with other nations. As Banks studies the language
Arrival_(film)
utilizing logograms, but later included the use of phonetic complements in order to differentiate between the semantic meanings of the logograms and for
Mesoamerican_writing_systems
2016 soundtrack album by Jóhann Jóhannsson
his score to reflect the circular motifs found in Arrival, such as the logograms that make up the aliens' written language. He used a 16-track analogue
Arrival_(soundtrack)
Ancient Indo-European language of the Hittite Empire
through Glossenkeil words in Hittite texts. Compared to cuneiform Hittite, logograms (signs with a set symbolic value) are rare. Instead, most writing is done
Luwian_language
Bronze Age god in ancient Syria
In some documents from Syrian cities, for example Halab and Ugarit, the logogram dNISABA designates Dagan. As noted by Alphonso Archi, in Western Semitic
Dagon
Pre-Columbian cultural area in the Americas
Mesoamerican scripts deciphered to date are logosyllabic combining the use of logograms with a syllabary, and they are often called hieroglyphic scripts. Five
Mesoamerica
travel, tourism, insurance
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