semantogram

/sɪˈmæn.tə.ɡɹæm/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

""the majority of Jurchen signs, which included both semantograms and phonograms, were inventions.""
"One could write OJ namyi ‘wave’ with the sinograph for a Chinese morpheme of similar meaning: 波 EMC *pa ‘wave.’ 波 *pa ‘wave’ would then be a semantogram for OJ namyi, serving as a translation of OJ namyi without representing its sound."

From semanto- + -gram, thus literally "meaning-drawing."

semantograms (plural)

logogram phonogram

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The recorded pronunciation is /sɪˈmæn.tə.ɡɹæm/.

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Where does semantogram come from?

From semanto- + -gram, thus literally "meaning-drawing."

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