Meaning of iconomatic | Babel Free

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.”

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