Thus a chessboard was an ideograph, and stood for a gift, and sometimes a building. |
Merodach's ideograph is the sun, and there is abundant evidence that he was first and last a solar god. |
From gesture to spoken word, to written word, to ideograph, to alphabetic script, to typescript. |
The ideograph could represent a bladder or a vase containing a liquid, which gives out an odor, but is not a perfume. |
Most of these symbols are compounded of an ideograph and a letter of the alphabet. |
An ideograph is a graphic representation of an abstract concept, a picture, if you will, with no intrinsic connection to a language. |