“Slightly weathered, a tinge overexposed, perhaps just out of step with the rest of the frame, back projections have become ingrained in our cultural ideography.”

“Since writing always contains the elements of iconography, ideography and phonology, cannot be identical with itself.”

“Specialized contexts may be identified in which ideography is operative within a particular social group or cultural niche.”

“An ideogram can convey the essence of an entire concept through a single symbol, without indicating any specific sequence of sounds.”

“The Chinese ideogram for qi was developed from the pictogram of a pot of boiling rice with the top blown off by rising steam.”

“Although it is often difficult to decide whether a sign is an ideogram or a phonogram.”

“Thus a chessboard was an ideograph, and stood for a gift, and sometimes a building.”

“An ideograph is a graphic representation of an abstract concept, a picture, if you will, with no intrinsic connection to a language.”

“From gesture to spoken word, to written word, to ideograph, to alphabetic script, to typescript.”

“Then ten years of school for learning the first thousand Chinese kanji ideographs, with thousands more to go.”

“Later to create more words, symbols were added to pictographs to form ideographs.”

“Some pictographs were used as ideographs because they have different semantic meanings.”

“Words could be written using only phonograms or ideograms, but most used a combination of both.”

“Buddhist temple coins here in Japan are inscribed with kana syllables, not kanji ideograms.”

“Second, they have no alphabet, relying instead on ideograms, or characters, to represent each word.”