ideogram

English

WOTD – 12 December 2009, 12 December 2010

Alternative forms

• ideogramme (rare)

Etymology

From ideo- +‎ -gram.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪd.i.ə.ɡɹæm/, /ˈaɪ.di.ə.ɡɹæm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪd.i.oʊ.ɡɹæm/, /ˈɪd.i.ə.ɡɹæm/

• Audio (Australia):

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Noun

ideogram (plural ideograms)

1. A picture or symbol which represents the idea of something without indicating the sequence of sounds used to pronounce it. Examples include digits, traffic signs, and graphic symbols such as @.

   Synonyms: ideograph, semasiograph

   Coordinate terms: logogram, pictogram, pictograph, hieroglyph; logograph, lexigram, lexigraph

   • 2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 99:

     I thought I would get a tattoo of a secret ideogram on my shoulder.

     [original: Pensé tatuarme un ideograma secreto en mi hombro.]

Derived terms

• ideogrammatic
• ideogrammatically
• ideogrammic

Translations

symbol

• Arabic: رمز تصويري (ar) m (ramz taṣwīrī)
• Armenian: գաղափարագիր (hy) (gaġapʻaragir)
• Asturian: ideograma m
• Bashkir: идеограмма (ideogramma)
• Belarusian: ідэагра́ма f (ideahráma)
• Bulgarian: идеогра́ма f (ideográma)
• Catalan: ideograma m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 表意文字 (zh) (biǎoyì wénzì), 意符 (zh) (yìfú)

• Corsican: ideogramma m
• Czech: ideogram (cs) m
• Danish: ideogram (da) n
• Dutch: ideogram (nl) n
• Estonian: ideogramm (et), mõistemärk
• Finnish: ideogrammi (fi)
• French: idéogramme (fr) m, idéographe m
• Friulian: ideogram m
• Galician: ideograma m
• Georgian: იდეოგრამა (ideograma)
• German: Ideogramm (de) n
• Greek: ιδεόγραμμα (el) n (ideógramma)
• Hebrew: סֵמֶל (he) m (semel)
• Hindi: चित्रलिपि (hi) f (citralipi)
• Hungarian: ideogramma (hu)
• Italian: ideogramma (it) m
• Japanese: 表意文字 (ja) (ひょういもじ, hyōi moji), 指事 (ja) (しじ, shiji)
• Kashubian: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: идеограмма (ıydeogramma)
• Korean: 표의문자(表意文字) (ko) (pyouimunja)
• Kyrgyz: идеограмма (ideogramma)
• Latvian: ideogramma f
• Lithuanian: ideograma f
• Macedonian: идеограм m (ideogram)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ideogram (no) n

• Occitan: ideograma m
• Polish: ideogram (pl) m
• Portuguese: ideograma (pt) m
• Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: ideogramă (ro) f
• Russian: идеогра́мма (ru) f (ideográmma)
• Serbo-Croatian: идео̀грам m, ideògram (sh) m
• Slovak: ideogram m
• Slovene: ideogram m
• Spanish: ideograma (es) m
• Swedish: ideogram (sv) n
• Turkish: ideogram (tr)
• Ukrainian: ідеогра́ма f (ideohráma)
• Uzbek: ideogramma (uz)
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• ideogram on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Noun

ideogram n (singular definite ideogrammet, plural indefinite ideogrammer)

1. (linguistics) ideogram

Declension

Declension of ideogram

neuter gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ideogram	ideogrammet	ideogrammer	ideogrammerne
genitive	ideograms	ideogrammets	ideogrammers	ideogrammernes

Further reading

• ideogram on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• “ideogram” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

ideogram n (plural ideogrammen, diminutive ideogrammetje n)

1. (linguistics) ideogram

Further reading

• “ideogram” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der.

Ancient Greek ῐ̓δεῖν (ĭdeîn)

Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa)der.

Latin idealbor.

Polish idea

Proto-Slavic *-o-

Old Polish -o-

Polish -o-

Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-

Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō

Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Hellenic *-mə

Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)

Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma)der.

Polish -gram

Polish ideogram

From idea + -o- + -gram.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.dɛˈɔ.ɡram/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔɡram
• Syllabification: i‧de‧o‧gram

Noun

ideogram m inan

1. (linguistics) ideogram

Declension

Declension of ideogram

	singular	plural
nominative	ideogram	ideogramy
genitive	ideogramu	ideogramów
dative	ideogramowi	ideogramom
accusative	ideogram	ideogramy
instrumental	ideogramem	ideogramami
locative	ideogramie	ideogramach
vocative	ideogramie	ideogramy

Derived terms

adjective

• ideogramowy

Further reading

• “ideogram”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “ideogram”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ideǒɡram/
• Hyphenation: i‧de‧o‧gram

Noun

ideògram m inan (Cyrillic spelling идео̀грам)

1. ideogram

Declension

Declension of ideogram

	singular	plural
nominative	ideogram	ideogrami
genitive	ideograma	ideograma
dative	ideogramu	ideogramima
accusative	ideogram	ideograme
vocative	ideograme	ideogrami
locative	ideogramu	ideogramima
instrumental	ideogramom	ideogramima

Turkish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der.

Ancient Greek ῐ̓δεῖν (ĭdeîn)

Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa)der.

French idéo-

Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma)bor.

French -gramme

French idéogrammebor.

Turkish ideogram

Borrowed from French idéogramme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.de.ɔ.ɡɾam/

Noun

ideogram (definite accusative ideogramı, plural ideogramlar)

1. ideogram

Declension

Declension of ideogram

	singular	plural
nominative	ideogram	ideogramlar
definite accusative	ideogramı	ideogramları
dative	ideograma	ideogramlara
locative	ideogramda	ideogramlarda
ablative	ideogramdan	ideogramlardan
genitive	ideogramın	ideogramların