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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary ideo·gram DATE 1838 1. a picture or symbol used in a system of writing to represent a thing or an idea but not a particular word or phrase for it; especially: one that represents not the object pictured but some thing or idea that the object pictured is supposed to suggest 2. logogram Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 ideogram ideo·gram / 5idiE^rAm / (also ideo·graph / 5idiE^rB:f; NAmE -^rAf / ) noun1. a symbol that is used in a writing system, for example Chinese, to represent the idea of a thing, rather than the sounds of a word 表意文字(或符号) 2. (technical 术语) a sign or a symbol for sth 表意标志；表意符号 Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged ideo·gram \ˈīdēəˌgram, ˈid-, -raa(ə)m sometimes īˈdēə- or īˈdiə-\ noun Etymology: ideo- + -gram 1. a. : a picture, a conventionalized picture, or a symbol that symbolizes a thing or an idea but not a particular word or phrase for it b. : a picture, a conventionalized picture, or a symbol that symbolizes a thing or an idea but not a particular word or phrase for it and that if pictorial symbolizes not the object pictured but some thing or idea that the object pictured is supposed to suggest or emblematize — distinguished from pictogram 2. : a symbol or group of symbols that as used in the writing of a particular language represents usually a particular morpheme, word, or phrase but without providing separate phonetic representation of the individual phonemes or syllables composing the morpheme, word, or phrase : logogram a; specifically : a symbol or group of symbols used for convenience in writing an alphabetic language and directly representing a word or phrase or in some instances an idea expressible by any of two or more different words or phrases (as in English 3 read as three, + read as plus, & read as and, $ read as dollar or dollars, 1960 read as one thousand nine hundred and sixty or nineteen hundred and sixty or nineteen sixty)3. : a composite character in Chinese writing made by combining two or more other characters for words of related meaning |
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