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iconomatography
Writing that describes a stage intermediate between picture-writing and phonetic writing, in which pictures or representations of objects stand not for the objects themselves, but for their names considered merely as phonetic elements, as in a pictorial rebus, or the use made by the Chinese of the sounds of their characters to express the sound of a foreign word.
This entry is located in the following units: grapho-, graph-, -graph, -graphy, -grapher, -graphia (page 48) icono-, icon- (page 3)