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Phonogram   Listen
noun
Phonogram  n.  
1.
A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound. "Phonograms are of three kinds: (1) Verbal signs, which stand for entire words; (2) Syllabic signs, which stand for the articulations of which words are composed; (3) Alphabetic signs, or letters, which represent the elementary sounds into which the syllable can be resolved."
2.
A record of sounds made by a phonograph.






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... the development of the ideogram into the phonogram, or sound sign. When this step is taken, the ideogram, besides representing an idea in a general way, represents a sound, usually the name of the object represented by the ideogram or by one of its components. A succession of these phonograms then represents a series of sounds, or syllables, ...
— Books Before Typography - Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 • Frederick W. Hamilton



Words linked to "Phonogram" :   written symbol, printed symbol, phonogramic



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