ideogram
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An original, pictorial element of writing; a kind of hieroglyph expressing no sound, but only an idea.
A symbol used for convenience, or for abbreviation; as, 1, 2, 3, +, -, /, $, /, etc.
A phonetic symbol; a letter.
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Poetry and the arts can't exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram remain inaccessible to this state of mind.
To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.
Chinese characters are ideograms
In modern transcriptions of Linear B tablets, it is typically convenient to represent an ideogram by its Latin or English name or by an abbreviation of the Latin name.
Burton, pp. 130–131 In the dialogue with Spoletta, the "torture" motif—an "ideogram of suffering", according to Budden—is heard for the first time as a foretaste of what is to come.
Often they reenforce the communication of the ideogram by repeating the first or last syllable in the term. In cuneiform In Sumerian, the single word kur had two meanings: 'hill' and 'country'.