Word

ideograph

noun

表意文字；表意符号

ideogram; a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it

1.
Synonym of ideogram.
同 ideogram
2.
a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it
指示事物含义而不表示其读音的图形字符

同 ideogram；指示事物含义而不表示其读音的图形字符；表意文字

In use

When my friend first saw the Chinese character for 'fire', she guessed it was an ideograph because the shape reminded her of flames.

我朋友第一次看到汉字“火”时，她猜那是一个表意文字，因为它的形状让她想起火焰。

Ancient scripts often used ideographs, and each symbol represented a whole idea rather than a single sound.

古代文字常常使用表意符号，每个符号代表一个完整的概念，而不是一个单纯的声音。

The museum label explained that this ideograph means 'water' and is drawn like flowing waves.

博物馆的说明牌解释说，这个表意文字表示“水”，画得像流动的波浪。

页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。

Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.