Example sentences for: logographs

How can you use “logographs” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Hieroglyphs and logographs are just as much phonetic-based scripts as letters (which millennia ago were likewise pictorial representations of concrete objects).

  • That hieroglyphs and logographs sometimes contain significant visual elements--mnemonic aids to jog the memory and set the synapses swinging--is icing on the cake.

  • First and foremost, hieroglyphs and logographs are read as sounds, not symbols, as my seven-year foray into Chinese has taught me.

  • It is the system of writing that the victorious Japanese wanted to impose on the defeated Australians, New Zealanders, and Americans at the end of World War II, forcing them to abandon Latin letters and use Chinese logographs as phonetic equivalents of English words instead.

  • Chinese logographs have been employed for Korean, Japanese, and Annamese.


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