Ideogram (noun)

A written or printed symbol that represents an idea or concept without describing the sounds or words used to express it, as in Chinese or Japanese writing.

Origin:

Ideogram is formed from the words "idea" and "gram" which means "a written or printed symbol representing an idea or concept.".

Examples:

1. The Chinese language uses a lot of ideograms in its writing system.
2. This book contains a lot of ideograms and it's difficult for me to understand it.
3. The ancient Egyptians used ideograms to write hieroglyphs.
4. The Japanese writing system uses a combination of ideograms and phonetic symbols.
5. The ideograms on the temple wall are believed to be over a thousand years old.