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/ʌɪkɒnəˈmatɪk/ · adjective
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..
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...
Use iconomatic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Iconomatic means 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..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
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Iconomatic writing... occupies an intermediate position, standing in some sense in relation to both letter and picture writing.
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