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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
logograph

"instrument for giving a graphic representation of speech," 1879, from Greek logos (see logos) + -graph "instrument for recording; something written." Earliest use (1797) is in the sense "logogriph," and it frequently was used in this sense.

Wiktionary
logograph

n. a character or symbol that represents a word or phrase.

WordNet
logograph

n. a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation; "7 is a logogram that is pronounced `seven' in English and `nanatsu' in Japanese" [syn: logogram]

Usage examples of "logograph".

Simon could read only a few logographs and those slowly, so he had to ask her what she was doing.

Only some logographs and pictographs that are for the most part unreadable.