semantogram

From semanto- +‎ -gram, thus literally "meaning-drawing."

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈmæn.tə.ɡɹæm/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /səˈmæn.tə.ɡɹæm/

• Hyphenation: se‧man‧to‧gram

semantogram (plural semantograms)

1. A symbol used solely for meaning, as when logographic Chinese symbols are used to represent the meaning of native Japanese words.
   • 1978, Herbert Franke; Dennis Twitchett, “Introduction”, in The Cambridge History of China‎, →ISBN, page 32:

     "the majority of Jurchen signs, which included both semantograms and phonograms, were inventions."

• semantograph
• ideograph

• logogram
• phonogram