Meaning of iconomatic | Babel Free
ʌɪkɒnəˈmatɪkDefinitions
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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