logogram

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A written symbol representing an entire spoken word without expressing its pronunciation; for example, for 4 read “four” in English, “quattro” in Italian.

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A word-sign; a single written character, or a combination of characters regarded as a unit, representing a whole word.

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A versified puzzle containing synonyms of a number of words derived from a single word by recombining its letters, the solution depending upon the guessing of the derived words from the synonyms, and the discovery from the former of the original word.

noun

A word letter; a phonogram, that, for the sake of brevity, represents a word. Cf. grammalogue.

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A character or symbol that represents a word or phrase (e.g. a character of the Chinese writing system).

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A graphical symbol representing a concept or thing, as in roadside signs; a logo.

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a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation