Logogram

In written language, a logogram or logograph is a written character that represents a word or phrase.

Description

Chinese characters and Japanese kanji are logograms; some Egyptian hieroglyphs and some graphemes in Cuneiform script are also logograms.

The use of logograms in writing is called logography.

A writing system that is based on logograms/logographs is called a logographic system.

In alphabets and syllabaries, individual written characters represent sounds rather than concepts.

These characters are called phonograms.

Unlike logograms, phonograms do not necessarily have meaning by themselves, but are combined to make words and phrases that have meaning.

Writing language in this way is called phonemic orthography.