Graphic symbols used to represent ideas.
Symbols that are abstract representations
From Ruby Annotation ( 2001-05-31) A character that is used to represent an idea, word, or word component, in contrast to a character from an alphabetic or syllabic script. The most well-known ideographic script is used (with some variation) in East Asia (China, Japan, Korea,...).
Ideographs represent the idea of something rather than its' physical being. It creates an association between the Bliss-character and the concept it represents.
a graphic character used in ideography
a character in an Asian writing system that represents a concept or an idea, but not a particular word or pronunciation
an essence, an abstraction
See ideographic character.
A graphic symbol that represents an idea instead of a spoken word, a single morpheme, or a lexical item. In a phonetic system, the symbol represents the sounds that form its name. Sometimes children's writing contains idiographs, but there is no known writing system that is composed entirely of idiographs. See logograph.
A symbol that represents an idea. Chinese is an example of an ideographic writing system.
The combination of two or more pictographs to represent a concept.