Logograms
"Logograms" in a Sentence (10 examples)
He regretted that he could not read the more academic logograms in the advanced book that he found trashed at the university.
His language is a hodgepodge of logograms and phonograms, which everyone learns in school.
You don't really want to learn logograms, do you?
I guess that a few non-standard logograms might not yet be in Unicode, which is like a museum.
Many logograms are just graphical idiomatic expressions, "figures of speech."
In a society that uses thousands of logograms, there is much hidden illiteracy that people don't talk much about in public.
Can she read a sci-fi book in a logographic language? Are there logograms she can't read?
It's better if you design a constructed language that has less than 100 logograms with a complement of phonograms. I would call it Weena from a character in a classic movie.
Using a limited number of existing logograms from natural languages, you can create a new language, complemented by a set of phonograms.
Some are beginning to think that wealth comes from knowing logograms.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.