word writing

Japanese: word writing(英語表記)wordwriting
word writing

...Today, therefore, characters are classified according to the units of language that each individual character represents: word characters (or logograms), syllabaries, and phonemic characters.
[Word characters]
Word writing (logograph) is a kind of writing that is usually called ideographic writing, such as Chinese characters and the early stages of Egyptian hieroglyphics, in which each character represents a unit that is essentially a word (logograph). However, it should be noted that this type of classification is based only on principle.

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "word writing" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…したがって今日では,文字を個々の字が表す言語の単位によって分類し,単語文字(あるいは表語文字),音節文字,音素文字とするようになっている。
[単語文字]
 〈単語文字word writing(logograph)〉は,ふつう表意文字と呼ばれるもので漢字やエジプトの象形文字の初期の段階にみられるように,個々の字が原則として単語に相当する単位を表す(表語文字)。ただし,この種の分類が原則的事実の上にだけ立つものであることは注意されなければならない。…

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