Logogram

Logogram

Réf. 100120
 
 
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"An ideogram or ideograph (from Greek ἰδέα concept "concept" + γράφω grafo "to jot down") is a graphic image that represents an concept or thought. Some ideograms are understandable most effective via familiarity with prior conference; others put across their that means via pictorial resemblance to a bodily object, and thus can also be known as pictograms. (...)

Chinese language characters have continuously been referred to as "ideograms", however since many Chinese language characters even have morphemic and continuously phonetic importance, there have been many makes an attempt to desert the identify "ideogram" in desire of a time period that extra as it should be represents their nature. One selection is logogram, from the Greek roots emblems ("phrase") and grapho ("to jot down"). Others come with Sinogram, emphasizing the Chinese language starting place of the characters, and Han persona, a literal translation of the local time period. Those phrases have won some forex amongst students, however have didn't unfold into commonplace utilization. The local phrases (Chinese language hanzi, Eastern kanji, Korean hanja) also are relatively popular within the contexts of the person languages, however they aren't normally thought to be appropriate for dialogue of the script as a complete."

(Wikipedia, access "Ideogram", January 2010)




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Panorama : China

Textures : rice paper via Estrilda (Anastasia Kalenkovich) on Deviant Artwork and wooden texture from SkeletalMess (Jerry Jones) on FlickR - thanks very a lot for sharing !

Posted via Aelin Quan on 2010-01-20 13:45:47

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