ideograph
- n a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it
- To operate the machine, a typist must memorize 5,400 combinations of four numbers each; every combination represents a Chinese word or ideograph.
- Japanese propagandists would soon have their own ideograph for the precise, mild-mannered Pennsylvania Dutchman who is impatient to get the war over so he can go sailboating.
- Investigators found there incendiary bomb fragments with Japanese ideograph markings.