ideogram

English

WOTD – 12 December 2009    

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Alternative forms

• ideogramme (rare)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɪd.i.ə.ɡɹæm/, /ˈaɪ.di.ə.ɡɹæm/, X-SAMPA: /"Idi@gr{m/
• (US) IPA: /ˈɪd.i.oʊ.ɡɹæm/, /ˈɪd.i.ə.ɡɹæm/

Noun

ideogram (plural ideograms)

1. A symbol which represents the idea of something without indicating the sequence of sounds used to pronounce it. Examples include numerals, many Chinese characters, traffic signs, or graphic symbols such as & and @.

Synonyms

• (symbol): ideograph

Derived terms

• ideogrammatic
• ideogrammatically

Related terms

• logogram
• pictogram

Translations

a symbol

• Armenian: գաղափարագիր (hy) (gaġap’aragir)
• Catalan: ideograma (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 指事 (cmn) (zhǐshì)

• Danish: ideogram (da) n
• Dutch: ideogram (nl) n
• Estonian: ideogramm (et), mõistemärk (et)
• Finnish: ideogrammi (fi)
• French: idéogramme (fr) m
• German: Ideogramm (de) n
• Greek: ιδεόγραμμα (el) (ideógramma) n

• Hebrew: סֵמֶל (he) (semel) m
• Hungarian: ideogramma (hu)
• Italian: ideogramma (it) m
• Japanese: 表意文字 (ja) (hyōi moji), 指事 (ja) (shiji)
• Norwegian: ideogram (no) n
• Polish: ideogram (pl) m
• Romanian: ideogramă (ro) f
• Russian: идеограмма (ru) (ideogramma) f
• Spanish: ideograma (es)
• Turkish: ideogram (tr)

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ideǒɡram/
• Hyphenation: i‧de‧o‧gram

Noun

ideògram m (Cyrillic spelling идео̀грам)

1. ideogram

Declension

    declension of ideogram

	singular	plural
nominative	ideogram	ideogrami
genitive	ideograma	ideograma
dative	ideogramu	ideogramima
accusative	ideogram	ideograme
vocative	ideograme	ideogrami
locative	ideogramu	ideogramima
instrumental	ideogramom	ideogramima