Of or pertaining to an ideogram; representing ideas by symbols, independently of sounds; as, 9 represents not the word "nine," but the idea of the number itself.
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An ideograph is one word that creates or reinforces an
ideology.
For example, you can't tell me what the word "liberty" means,
but you know it and when you hear that word, you feel a certain
way.
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Yes, the Aztecs had a writing system known as Nahuatl, which was a combination of ideographic and phonetic symbols. They used this system to record important events, historical accounts, and religious rituals on various materials such as parchment and illustrated codices.