adjective
- relating to or consisting of logograms (written symbols representing words or concepts)
Usage: technical; linguistics
Examples
- Chinese characters are examples of logogrammatic writing systems.
- The ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs included logogrammatic elements.
- Logogrammatic scripts differ from alphabetic writing systems.
- The researcher studied logogrammatic symbols in Mayan texts.
- Modern Japanese combines logogrammatic kanji with phonetic scripts.
- Logogrammatic writing can convey meaning without indicating pronunciation.