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Logogram meaning
A character or symbol (usually nonalphanumeric) that represents a word or phrase. | A kind of word puzzle: a logogriph.
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For example, in Mayan, the glyph for "fin", pronounced "ka'", was also used to represent the syllable "ka" whenever the pronunciation of a logogram needed to be indicated, or when there was no logogram.
For this reason, the sign AN can on the one hand be a logogram for the word ilum ('god') and on the other signify the god Anu or even the syllable -an-.
History The Semitic letter Dāleth may have developed from the logogram for a fish or a door.
One word is 'house', and its hieroglyphic representation is straightforward: pr:Z1 Here the 'house' hieroglyph works as a logogram: it represents the word with a single sign.
The vertical stroke below the hieroglyph is a common way of indicating that a glyph is working as a logogram.