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Preferred term

Logograms  

Definition

  • Characters in writing which represent a word as a whole; distinguished from phonograms, which represent sounds, and pictograms or ideograms which represent objects or ideas [Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics, alt.]

Entry terms

  • Characters, logograms
  • Logographs

Notation

  • 122808

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-S68MLPT6-5

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