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ideography

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.

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Pronunciation

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1

noun

Meaning 1

The use of ideograms; semasiography or logography.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • The classical Yi ideography

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

the use of ideograms in writing

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: orthography, writing system

History

Etymology

From ideo- + -graphy.

Across languages

Translations

38 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: գաղափարագրություն (gaġapʻaragrutʻyun) — use of ideograms
  • Belarusian: ідэагра́фія (ideahráfija) — use of ideograms
  • Bulgarian: идеогра́фия (ideográfija) — use of ideograms
  • Catalan: ideografia — use of ideograms
  • Chinese Mandarin: 表意文字 (biǎoyìwénzi) — use of ideograms
  • Corsican: ideografia — use of ideograms
  • Corsican: ideograffia — use of ideograms
  • Corsican: ideugrafia — use of ideograms
  • Czech: ideografie — use of ideograms
  • Danish: ideografi — use of ideograms
  • Dutch: ideografie — use of ideograms
  • Estonian: ideograafia — use of ideograms
  • Finnish: ideografia — use of ideograms
  • Finnish: käsitekirjoitus — use of ideograms
  • French: idéographie — use of ideograms
  • Galician: ideografía — use of ideograms
  • Georgian: იდეოგრაფია (ideograpia) — use of ideograms
  • German: Ideographie — use of ideograms
  • Greek: ιδεογραφία (ideografía) — use of ideograms
  • Italian: ideografia — use of ideograms
  • Japanese: 表意文字 (hyōimoji) — use of ideograms
  • Korean: 표의문자 (pyouimunja) — use of ideograms
  • Latvian: ideogrāfija — use of ideograms
  • Lithuanian: ideografija — use of ideograms
  • Macedonian: идеографија (ideografija) — use of ideograms
  • Occitan: ideografia — use of ideograms
  • Polish: ideografia — use of ideograms
  • Romanian: ideografie — use of ideograms
  • Russian: идеогра́фия (ideográfija) — use of ideograms
  • Russian: иерогли́фика (ijeroglífika) — use of ideograms
  • Russian: логогра́фия (logográfija) — use of ideograms
  • Serbo-Croatian: идеогра̀фија — use of ideograms
  • Serbo-Croatian: ideogràfija — use of ideograms
  • Slovak: ideografia — use of ideograms
  • Slovene: ideografija — use of ideograms
  • Spanish: ideografía — use of ideograms
  • Turkish: ideografi — use of ideograms
  • Ukrainian: ідеогра́фія (ideohráfija) — use of ideograms