noun
- written symbols that represent ideas or concepts directly rather than sounds or words
Usage: plural of ideogram
Examples
- Chinese characters are examples of ideograms that convey meaning through visual symbols.
- Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs included many ideograms alongside phonetic elements.
- The mathematician used ideograms to represent complex mathematical concepts.
- Traffic signs often function as modern ideograms that communicate without words.
- Students studying linguistics learned to distinguish between ideograms and alphabetic writing.
- The museum displayed ancient ideograms carved into stone tablets.
- Computer interfaces frequently use ideograms like arrows and icons for navigation.