iconomatic
Definitions
The use of pictographs to represent their sounds, as in English rebuses using an eye to mean I or in Chinese phonetic transcription of foreign terms into characters.
not-comparable
Examples
“We have⟳, so far as I am aware, no scientific term to express⟳ this manner of phonetic writing, and I propose⟳ for it therefore the adjective ikonomatic...”
“Iconomatic writing... occupies an intermediate position, standing in some sense⟳ in relation to both letter and picture writing.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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