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ideogram

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˈɪd.i.ə.ɡɹæm/
  • UK: /ˈaɪ.di.ə.ɡɹæm/
  • US: /ˈɪd.i.oʊ.ɡɹæm/
  • US: /ˈɪd.i.ə.ɡɹæm/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

A picture or symbol which represents the idea of something without indicating the sequence of sounds used to pronounce it. Examples include digits, traffic signs, and graphic symbols such as @.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: ideograph, semasiograph

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • Chinese characters are ideograms

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: ideograph

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: character, grapheme, graphic symbol

Narrower terms: logogram, logograph

History

Etymology

From ideo- + -gram.

Across languages

Translations

50 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: رمز تصويري (ramz taṣwīrī) — symbol
  • Armenian: գաղափարագիր (gaġapʻaragir) — symbol
  • Asturian: ideograma — symbol
  • Bashkir: идеограмма (ideogramma) — symbol
  • Belarusian: ідэагра́ма (ideahráma) — symbol
  • Bulgarian: идеогра́ма (ideográma) — symbol
  • Catalan: ideograma — symbol
  • Chinese Mandarin: 表意文字 (biǎoyì wénzì) — symbol
  • Chinese Mandarin: 意符 (yìfú) — symbol
  • Corsican: ideogramma — symbol
  • Czech: ideogram — symbol
  • Danish: ideogram — symbol
  • Dutch: ideogram — symbol
  • Estonian: ideogramm — symbol
  • Estonian: mõistemärk — symbol
  • Finnish: ideogrammi — symbol
  • French: idéogramme — symbol
  • French: idéographe — symbol
  • Friulian: ideogram — symbol
  • Galician: ideograma — symbol
  • Georgian: იდეოგრამა (ideograma) — symbol
  • German: Ideogramm — symbol
  • Greek: ιδεόγραμμα (ideógramma) — symbol
  • Hebrew: סֵמֶל (semel) — symbol
  • Hindi: चित्रलिपि (citralipi) — symbol
  • Hungarian: ideogramma — symbol
  • Italian: ideogramma — symbol
  • Japanese: 表意文字 (hyōi moji) — symbol
  • Japanese: 指事 (shiji) — symbol
  • Kazakh: идеограмма (ideogramma) — symbol
  • Korean: 표의문자 (pyouimunja) — symbol
  • Kyrgyz: идеограмма (ideogramma) — symbol
  • Latvian: ideogramma — symbol
  • Lithuanian: ideograma — symbol
  • Macedonian: идеограм (ideogram) — symbol
  • Norwegian Bokmål: ideogram — symbol
  • Occitan: ideograma — symbol
  • Polish: ideogram — symbol
  • Portuguese: ideograma — symbol
  • Romanian: ideogramă — symbol
  • Russian: идеогра́мма (ideográmma) — symbol
  • Serbo-Croatian: идео̀грам — symbol
  • Serbo-Croatian: ideògram — symbol
  • Slovak: ideogram — symbol
  • Slovene: ideogram — symbol
  • Spanish: ideograma — symbol
  • Swedish: ideogram — symbol
  • Turkish: ideogram — symbol
  • Ukrainian: ідеогра́ма (ideohráma) — symbol
  • Uzbek: ideogramma — symbol