Sentence example with the word 'ideograph'

ideograph

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

Last update: October 31, 2015


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Its frequent explanation, however, of incompatible symbols by the doctrines of phonetic variation and interchange, or by alternative values of the same symbol used as ideograph, determinative or phonetic complement, and the occasional use of circular argument in the process of " verification," do not inspire confidence in other than its broader results.   [Please select]

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Thus, "word" or "order" is Page 149 denoted by a head, a phonetic character, and the ideograph of "speaking," the whole being a fairly exact counterpart of the Egyptian _tep-ro_, an "oral communication."   [Please select]

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The ideograph for "tomb" seems to be a rude picture of the funerary chapel, but from it we can derive little information as to its construction.   [Please select]

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] We must not omit to note an interesting point in connection with the royal tombs at Abydos, In that of King Khent or Tjer (the reading of the ideograph is doubtful) M.   [Please select]

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The service was in the vernacular, and though she tried to follow it in her _Romaji_ prayer-book--whose words were printed in Roman letters instead of the Japanese ideograph--the lines were meaningless, and she could not fasten her mind on them.   [Please select]

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