logigraphic
Adjective
- Relating to or consisting of logographs (written symbols that represent a word or phrase, such as in shorthand or certain writing systems).
- A logigraphic script uses characters to denote entire words rather than individual sounds.
The ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs are partially logigraphic, with symbols representing whole concepts.
(The writing system includes signs that stand for entire words or ideas.)Shorthand systems often employ logigraphic symbols to speed up writing.
(These symbols represent common words or phrases as single marks.)
"logigraphic writing": a system where each character corresponds to a word or morpheme, as opposed to alphabetic or syllabic writing.
- Chinese characters are largely logographic, but some are considered logigraphic in their direct representation of meaning.
"logigraphic abbreviation": a shortened form using a symbol for a whole word, common in note-taking or technical fields.
- In medical shorthand, "@" is a logigraphic abbreviation for "at".
Logograph (noun): a single written symbol that represents a word or phrase.
- The ampersand (&) is a logograph for "and".
Logography (noun): the use of logographs in writing.
- Logography is common in ancient scripts like cuneiform.
Ideographic: relating to symbols that represent ideas (often overlapping with logographic, though ideographs may represent concepts rather than specific words).
Word-symbolic: using symbols that stand for whole words.