rebus principle
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.52 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The idea of using ideograms as phonograms representing the sounds of the words expressed by the original ideograms.
Example Sentences
- "The principle of phonetic transfer is often called the rebus principle. Although the rebus principle of word-sign substitution in situations where there are like sounds was discovered by many diverse civilizations it was not fully exploited by most."
- "The rebus principle appears in both the Egyptian hieroglyphic and in the Chinese writing systems."
- "Once the rebus principle is accepted by a language in its written form, it is a natural step for such symbols to come to represent the sounds of syllables."
- "With the rebus principle, sound could be made visible in a systematic way, and abstract concepts symbolized."
- "The rebus principle supplemented the logographic principle and allowed full writing systems to develop."