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. |
Braille has been adapted to every language and dialect, even the complex Chinese ideogram. |
Since many of the more complicated characters combine basic ones, Ms Hsueh's idea is for learners to create stories for each ideogram. |
The Chinese ideogram for qi was developed from the pictogram of a pot of boiling rice with the top blown off by rising steam. |
The forms of the late traditional sculpture achieve a level of plastic ideogram comparable to that of the late ideographic rock pictures. |