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What does ideograms illustrate?

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Anonymous

7y ago
Updated: 8/14/2021

An ideogram is a figure which represents a whole word. One which we use a lot is a heart for the word "love". You will note that the heart shape does not actually look a lot like a real heart, and in any case, the heart does not really have anything to do with love. So the ideogram itself does not usually convey the idea of the word it represents, because it is an abstracted design, and its meaning is conventional. Chinese ideograms are the same thing--they once were like pictures, but you can't figure out what they were supposed to be anymore.

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