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  • noun Plural form of logogram.

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Examples

  • (Maybe the word logograms would be demonstrably better, and maybe we could have a whole discussion about it.

    Popular Posts Across MetaFilter 2009

  • (Maybe the word logograms would be demonstrably better, and maybe we could have a whole discussion about it.

    Popular Posts Across MetaFilter 2009

  • You can add logograms and take them away, substitute one for another, to the extent that you have an entirely different system than you started with ... to the extent that users of each system would find the other system uninterpretable.

    More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007

  • Much more difficult to give people a cartouche, since the hieroglyphic language is based on the phonetic value of the hieroglyph, with further information depicted by hieroglyphs acting as logograms.

    Covers, Egyptian Style Julianne Douglas 2008

  • Ideograms are pictures each representing a concept, often confused with logograms.

    I just had to do this test StyleyGeek 2007

  • Each of these things adds to the overall force of Chinese logograms in the Western mind.

    Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Tattoos Sacred and Profane 2006

  • It is evident that the following logograms form part of a correspondence between a young lady, formerly of Mercury, and her confidential friend still resident upon the inferior planet.

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) Various 1887

  • The Hittite's writing was similar to other pictographic systems because of their use of logograms and auxiliary marks.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • The Hittite's writing was similar to other pictographic systems because of their use of logograms and auxiliary marks.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Hittites pictographic system had three types of signs: logograms, syllabic, and auxiliary marks.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

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