Ideographic

Another category, ideographic (symbols for ideas), has never been developed sufficiently to represent language.

Chinese ideographic style seeAlso The character 囧 (U+56E7), which means "bright", citation is also used in the Chinese computing community for a frowning face. citation It is also combined with posture emoticon Orz, such as 囧rz.

He made the first major advances in this area; he also correctly identified Demotic as being composed by both ideographic and phonetic signs.sfn Subsequently, Young felt that Champollion was unwilling to share the credit for the decipherment.

In addition, the character metrics use a specific layout where the usual baseline is not used, and the ideographic em-square is not relevant for Bliss character designs, that use additional "earth line" and "sky line" to define the composition square.

Many logograms have an ideographic component (Chinese "radicals", hieroglyphic "determiners").