Sinograms

"Sinograms" in a Sentence (10 examples)

Some Latinos want to learn sinograms.

Sinograms are a form of mathematics.

"Dennis, I'd rather refer to Kanji as logograms or sinograms." "I think those words are too bookish, Marko." "You may be correct."

Sinograms are a result of a long, contorted, organic evolution.

A great motivation for keeping sinograms in Oriental languages is to distinguish the multitude of homonyms.

Westerners opine that there are magic and mystique in sinograms.

Sinograms have been conserved because of the large number of homonyms in their languages.

An objective of my proposed conlang Weena is to have a reduced minimal set of sinograms with a complement of phonograms, so that the calligraphic traditions of the Far East may be preserved.

East Asian graphemes, particularly sinograms, often mesmerize Westerners. As a linguist, I tend more towards a very comprehensive grammar as Lojban's than just the graphical features of East Asian languages. Indeed, Westerners and Easterners alike may find mystique in such scripts. Korean, unlike Japanese and Chinese, can make do with just phonograms, as Koreans consign their sinograms to "higher" literature. In retrospect, I should have taken Korean in tandem with Japanese during university.

In Japanese, Hiragana and Katakana are sets of phonograms, specifically syllabograms. Kanji are logograms, specifically sinograms.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.