| Each ideogram can mean what it represents, or the thing that is represented by the sound evokes. |
| The next step forward is the development of the ideogram into the phonogram, or sound sign. |
| The forms of the late traditional sculpture achieve a level of plastic ideogram comparable to that of the late ideographic rock pictures. |
| Further evidence to the same effect is given by the ancient writing, in which the ideogram for king was a star. |
| Although it is often difficult to decide whether a sign is an ideogram or a phonogram. |
| The most crucial distinction is that Chinese is ideogram, but nushu is, on the contrary, a phonogram that represents local dialect. |
