Phonogram

[fәunәgræm]

(noun.) any written symbol standing for a sound or syllable or morpheme or word.

整理:利亚--From WordNet

(n.) A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.

(n.) A record of sounds made by a phonograph.

编辑:奥斯本

Characters so used are called _phonograms_. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
They got very soon to the Chinese pictographs, ideographs, and phonograms, and beyond them. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
A box at a theatre needs yet another determinative, and so we go on, through a long series of phonograms. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
One may perhaps make this development of pictographs, ideographs, and phonograms a little clearer by taking an analogous case in English. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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