Iconomatic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ʌɪkɒnəˈmatɪk/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Iconomatic is an adjective meaning 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.
Meaning
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.
Example Sentences
Iconomatic writing... occupies an intermediate position, standing in some sense in relation to both letter and picture writing.
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ikonomatic, ideophonographical, pictographic, pictographical, homographic, phonosemantic.
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