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pictograph
...animals, and other objects used in the writing of the Minoan period of ancient Crete, or the stylized images used in many countries to label men's and women's toilets. Compare ideograph , logograph . pictographic adj. Of or relating to pictographs .
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phonogram
...in the sense of having an unvarying correspondence between phonograms and phonemes , while others (including English) are more or less irregular. Compare ideograph , logograph .[From Greek phonein to make sounds or to speak + gramma a character]
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logography
logography n. A system of writing based on logographs . Compare phonography . logographic adj.
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kanji
kanji n. The Japanese logographic writing system based mainly on Chinese logographs. A character in this system is also called a kanji. See also kana . [From Chinese han Chinese + zi a character]
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Chinese room
...the room receives a reply in Chinese and has no way of knowing that the person in the room does not understand a word (or a logograph ) of Chinese. Searle argued that an artificial intelligence machine or program is analogous to the Chinese room, and that...
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