In a written language, a logogram, also logograph or lexigraph, is a written character that represents a semantic component of a language, such as a word or morpheme. Chinese characters as used in Chi
Egyptian hieroglyphs, including logograms such as the sun disk (⊙, visible several times here)
An ideogram or ideograph is a symbol that is used within a given writing system to represent an idea or concept in a given language. Some ideograms are more arbitrary than others: some are only meanin
Dongba symbols, used by the Nakhi people as a mnemonic in reciting oral literature