| The writing system was logographic, where one sign or sign-group was used for each term or concept without adding grammatical elements. |
| But pictographic signs and logographic scripts with a limited readily learnable set of graphs are restricted to expressing a limited range of meanings. |
| Chinese writing, basically logographic writing system, one of the world's great writing systems. |
| Among the ancient Maya, logographic symbols were often incorporated into figural art, lending layers of significance to the greater composition. |
| Likewise, alphabetic and syllabic scripts frequently make some use of logograms and logographic values. |
| Most scholars accepted the theory that the Mayan writing system was entirely logographic that is, that each glyph, or sign, represented an entire word. |
