The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ideographic \I`de*o*graph"ic\, Ideographical \I`de*o*graph"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. id['e]ographique.] Of or pertaining to an ideogram; representing ideas by symbols, independently of sounds; as, 9 represents not the word ``nine,'' but the idea of the number itself. -- I`de*o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
a. Pertaining to an ideograph or ideography.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or consisting of ideograms
Usage examples of "ideographic".
The anchorite had shown Cale several alphabets, including the odd letters she had said were Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, and Cyrillic, as well as the Asian ideographic systems, but nothing in any of her books had even vaguely resembled these figures.
Chinese ideographic code list, and codes bearing kata kana names, such as ta, ji, or hen, it relied in the main on four systems.
He had meant to start teaching Sonny blacksmithing, but during the evening Lillian and Anna had decided to try teaching Mom a nonphonetic, ideographic, alphabet, and in the morning they co-opted Sonny to help.
The language as written is also ideographic, I fear, with a basic alphabet of more than two thousand characters and sixteen accent and tone marks.
In the unlikely event that he had assembled the control system with absolute precision (unlikely because this was the first such venture he'd attempted and because it was all so homemade), the machine would be capable of producing combinations of sounds that coincided with the ideographic units he and Edna had devised as written language.