| An ideogram comes from the combination of two or more meaningful components to create a new character with a new meaning. |
| The Chinese ideogram for qi was developed from the pictogram of a pot of boiling rice with the top blown off by rising steam. |
| Each ideogram can mean what it represents, or the thing that is represented by the sound evokes. |
| The most crucial distinction is that Chinese is ideogram, but nushu is, on the contrary, a phonogram that represents local dialect. |
| As the god Bin was also called Rimmon, the ideogram of the name may be read one way or the other. |
| Further evidence to the same effect is given by the ancient writing, in which the ideogram for king was a star. |
