logogram

Japanese: logogram
logogram

…Pictograms developed into pictograms, and then ideograms were established when one character corresponded to a concept or a semantic unit of a word. Chinese characters are a typical ideogram, and since one character often represents one word, they are also called logograms. Ideograms are opposed to phonetic characters, which write the phonetic aspects of words, in that they represent the semantic units of words. …

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…絵文字が発展して象形文字になり,ついで1字形が言葉の一つの概念あるいは一つの意味単位に対応する段階になって,表意文字は成立した。漢字は代表的な表意文字であるが,多くの場合1字形が1単語を表記するため,表語文字logogramとも呼ばれる。表意文字は,言葉の意味単位を表記する点で,音声面を書き表す表音文字に対立する。…

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