logograph

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The final narrative ends with the legendary inventor of Chinese characters reflecting on his impoverished mother, whose figure — no longer begging for food — is forever preserved in his logograms.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2021

All of the logograms were CG; the actors never saw them while shooting a scene.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2016

The inkblots, known as logograms, were primarily devised by the film’s production design team under Patrice Vermette.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2016

But the Heptapods’ don’t need to maintain that order when writing down language: because the logograms represent entire concepts, sequence doesn’t matter.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2016

“Syllabic” Linear B had many logograms, and “logographic” Egyptian hieroglyphs included many syllabic signs as well as a virtual alphabet of individual letters for each consonant.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond