Sentence examples for ideograph from inspiring English sources

An ideograph is a graphic representation of an abstract concept, a picture, if you will, with no intrinsic connection to a language.

In addition to ideograph trouble, the syntax is terribly complicated.

When Taymor directs, she begins with an "ideograph" — a symbol that conveys the essence of the piece.

"Tree" for example is represented by an ideograph that might be said to look like a tree, etc. Churchill's "Blood, sweat and tears," can be literally translated in Thousand-Character, buthehe nearest Basic can come is, Blood, face water, and eye water".

But with his expat history and familiarity with Japanese language and culture, it's only natural that the San Francisco cops would consult him about the blood-soaked kanji ideograph found at the scene of a multiple murder.

When Taymor directs, she begins with an "ideograph"—a symbol that conveys the essence of the piece.

Some writing systems that use Chinese characters, for example, have more than 50,000 ideographs (the minimal standard font for the Hanzi system in Chinese and the kanji system in Japanese has about 7,000 ideographs).

Modern Chinese, a present-day result of this evolutionary direction of a pictographic writing system, has upwards of 50,000 ideographs.

But even the most advanced pre-Columbian civilizations lacked alphabetic writing, so their "literature" was exclusively oral (if one includes various mnemonic ideographs and pictographs), kept by the memory of individuals entrusted with that task and by the collectivity.

Ten engraved ideographs identified the stone as that given to Wudi by Xiwangmu.

He issued a number of other proscriptions making it illegal for Chinese to learn to read either Mongol or Arabic script, to wear certain colours, and to use certain ideographs, including those for "long life" and "happiness".