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- Dictionarylog·o·gram/ˈlōɡəˌɡram/
noun
- 1. a sign or character representing a word or phrase, such as those used in shorthand and some writing systems.
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In a written language, a logogram (from Ancient Greek 'word', and 'that which is drawn or written'), also logograph or lexigraph, is a written character that represents a semantic component of a language, such as a word or morpheme. Chinese characters as used in Chinese as well as other languages are logograms, as are Egyptian hieroglyphs and characters in cuneiform script. A writing system that p... Wikipedia