Logographic

Because all languages have a very large number of words, no purely logographic scripts are known to exist.

History The first writing systems were either logographic or syllabic —for example, Chinese and Mayan script —which do not necessarily require punctuation, especially spacing.

However, such phonetic elements complement the logographic elements, rather than vice versa.

In comparison, Logographic writing systems such as Japanese kanji and Chinese hanzi use a symbol to represent a word.

In places where logographic languages are used, such as China, a visual Internet slang exists, giving characters dual meanings, one direct and one implied.

In these writing systems, a variety of strategies were employed in the design of logographic symbols.

In this system, common components of characters are identified; these are called radicals in Chinese and logographic systems derived from Chinese.

Many people with dyslexia have auditory processing problems, and may develop their own logographic cues to compensate for this type of deficit.

Syllabaries typically contain 50 to 400 glyphs, and the glyphs of logographic systems typically number from the many hundreds into the thousands.

The early logographic system of cuneiform script took many years to master.

The main logographic system in use today is Chinese characters, used with some modification for the various languages or dialects of China, and for Japanese.

The principal types are logographic (with symbols representing words or morphemes ), syllabic (with symbols representing syllables), and alphabetic (with symbols roughly representing phonemes ).

This system uses Chinese characters in a variety of functions: their usual logographic sense; to represent Japanese syllables phonetically; and sometimes in a combination of these functions.

Vietnamese divergently had an indigenous script based on Chinese logographic writing.