noun
- written symbols that represent ideas or concepts directly rather than sounds or words
Usage: plural of ideograph
Examples
- Chinese characters are examples of ideographs that convey meaning through visual symbols.
- Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs included many ideographs alongside phonetic elements.
- The student studied how ideographs differ from alphabetic writing systems.
- Traffic signs often use ideographs so they can be understood internationally.
- Some ideographs have evolved from simple pictures into more abstract symbols.
- The writing system combined ideographs with syllabic characters.