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Noun: ideographic script
  1. A writing system in which graphemes are ideograms representing concepts or ideas, rather than a specific word in a language.
    "The successful decipherment was preceded by a long period during which hieroglyphs were wrongly believed to be a purely ideographic script."

Type of: script

Encyclopedia: Ideographic script