What is "phonogram"

Phonogram \Pho"no*gram\, n. [Phono- + -gram.]

1. A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.

   Phonograms are of three kinds: (1) Verbal signs, which stand for entire words; (2) Syllabic signs, which stand for the articulations of which words are composed; (3) Alphabetic signs, or letters, which represent the elementary sounds into which the syllable can be resolved.
   --I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

2. A record of sounds made by a phonograph.

1845, "a written symbol," from phono- + -gram. From 1879 as "a sound recording."

n. 1 (context linguistics English) A group of letters which share the same letter combination associated with a sound, such as rhyme words. 2 (context legal English) An audio recording.

n. any written symbol standing for a sound or syllable or morpheme or word

Phonogram may refer to:

• Phonogram (comics), a comic book by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie
• Phonogram (linguistics), a grapheme which represents a phoneme or a combination of phonemes
• Phonogram Inc., a music label holding company which was launched in 1971
• A phonogram, the sound recording element of a phonorecord

Phonogram is a comic book written by Kieron Gillen and drawn by Jamie McKelvie. It is published by American company Image Comics.

A phonogram is a grapheme (written character) which represents a phoneme (speech sound) or combination of phonemes, such as the letters of the Latin alphabet or the Japanese kana. For example, "igh" is an English-language phonogram that represents the hard "I" sound in "high". Whereas the word phonemes refers to the sounds, the word phonogram refers to the letter(s) that represent that sound.

Phonograms contrast with logograms, which represent words and morphemes (meaningful units of language), and determinatives, silent characters used to mark semantic categories.