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ideogram - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

ideogram (plural ideograms)

  • A picture or symbol which represents the idea of something without indicating the sequence of sounds used to pronounce it. Examples include digits, traffic signs, and graphic symbols such as @.
    • ✤ Synonyms: ideograph, semasiograph
    • ✤ Coordinate terms: logogram, pictogram, pictograph, hieroglyph; logograph, lexigram, lexigraph
    • I thought I would get a tattoo of a secret ideogram on my shoulder. [original: Pensé tatuarme un ideograma secreto en mi hombro.]1
  • ✤ [original: Pensé tatuarme un ideograma secreto en mi hombro.]

Etymology

From ideo- +‎ -gram.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA: /ˈɪd.i.ə.ɡɹæm/, /ˈaɪ.di.ə.ɡɹæm/
  • (US) IPA: /ˈɪd.i.oʊ.ɡɹæm/, /ˈɪd.i.ə.ɡɹæm/
  • Audio (Australian): 🔊

Printed 2026-06-28.

(echo:: @ )

Footnotes

  1. 2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 99:

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