This system he called logographic printing, -- logographic being a combination of two Greek words signifying word-writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money] Reference

The perfect book or speech obeys in every respect the pure and merciless laws of what has been called logographic necessity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-06-12] Reference

Such writing is "logographic" (symbols for words), and doesn't give the reader information on how to speak it, which is itself a great benefit, for then even people who speak different languages can utilize the same writing system and be able to communicate via it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Blogging] Reference

Displays on alphabetic and logographic writing systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museums] Reference

What is a logographic or non-logographic writing system?.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: Q BEFORE U.] Reference

Compare for example, our alphabetic scripts against the logographic picture style of the Chinese.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History Of Reading « Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News] Reference

Of the languages I know written in non-logographic writing systems, English has by far the most difficult spelling.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: Q BEFORE U.] Reference

The San Andrés researchers believe these symbols represent words or ideas and reflect the first stages of logographic writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earliest Mesoamerican Writing?] Reference

Omniglot is an interesting site about writing systems, which it classifies in alphabetic, syllabic, logographic, and alternative systems describing real and fictitious languages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reflective Surface - Omniglot] Reference

Thus Sumerian logographic signs, if used in Akkadian, would not convey the same exact meaning, while the same sign could, depending upon context, mean different words, a linguistic trait known as polyvalency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Whisperers] Reference

Unlike alphabetic systems, Egyptian hieroglyphs are logographic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The most widespread logographic script in modern use is the Chinese script.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to PPD and Microsoft to Deliver Innovative REMS Solution Based on Microsoft Technologies] Reference

A trailer for a homemade movie ... obviously logographic with phonetic signs.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to PPD and Microsoft to Deliver Innovative REMS Solution Based on Microsoft Technologies] Reference

All characters since this time were a mix of logographic and phonographic elements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The newspaper had some little success from the beginning; but the logographic printing system would not work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money] Reference

But though the logographic printing was a failure, the "Daily Universal Register" proved more and more successful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money] Reference

And when culture decided to go the speech-writing route rather than the logographic route, it created for itself a big dilemma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Blogging] Reference

His mash-up of old Victorian engravings are simple but eerie, and have an almost logographic quality about them - they're great tattoo ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost At E Minor: For creative people] Reference

This is the new name instead of the Telegraph, because of its allusion to the logographic printing press, which prints words instead of letters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1] Reference

That is, logographic writing systems can serve as universal writing systems bringing together a variety of spoken languages into harmony and friendship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Blogging] Reference

This is a much more cost-effective way of constructing and transcribing meaning than logographic systems such as Chinese, ancient cuneiform or Egyptian hieroglyphics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Border Mail] Reference

She also discussed the "logographic capability" of children who recognize icons, although they also engage in more sophisticated literacy practices involving postcards, books, and newspapers.    From Wordnik.com.  [virtualpolitik] Reference

Whether real-world objects, semi-symbolic cartoons, visual signs outside of language proper, or symbols in logographic writing like Chinese, the symbols tend to be roughly object-like, just what our visual system evolved for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Blogging] Reference

I have no idea whether the merits of speech-writing outweigh the benefits of logographic (symbols-for-words) writing, but there have been hundreds of speech-writing systems over history, many in use today by about half the world's population.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Blogging] Reference

"It's logical that we would find a logographic stage of writing before we get full-blown texts and a syllabic system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earliest Mesoamerican Writing?] Reference

But first: logographic hilarity:???????.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Blog A Lot] Reference

On logographic printing, 198.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 1, November, 1849-May, 1850 A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

The so-called "ideographic languages" (Sinologists prefer the word "logographic") do not "aspire to picture thought directly.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Rescuing Literature: An Exchange] Reference