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Pictogram vs Phonogram - What's the difference?

pictogram | phonogram |

As nouns the difference between pictogram and phonogram

is that pictogram is a picture that represents a word or an idea by illustration while phonogram is a group of letters which share the same letter combination associated with a sound, such as rhyming words.

pictogram

English

(wikipedia pictogram)

Alternative forms

* pictogramme (rare)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A picture that represents a word or an idea by illustration.

    • Usage notes

    Strictly speaking, a pictogram'' represents by illustration, an ''ideogram'' represents an idea, and a ''logogram'' represents a word: Chinese characters are all logograms, but few are pictograms or ideograms. Casually, ''pictogram is used to represent all of these: it is a picture representing some concept.

    Synonyms

    * pictograph * hieroglyph

    Related terms

    * ideogram * logogram ----

    phonogram

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) A group of letters which share the same letter combination associated with a sound, such as rhyming words.
  • (legal) An audio recording.

    • See also

    * audiogram * phonograph * videogram

    Anagrams

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