adjective
- of or relating to a phonogram; representing sounds or speech by written symbols or characters
Usage: technical; linguistics
Examples
- The phonogrammic system of writing uses symbols to represent individual sounds.
- Alphabetic scripts are phonogrammic in nature, encoding phonemes rather than meanings.
- Linguists study phonogrammic writing systems to understand how languages are recorded.
- The phonogrammic approach to orthography differs from logographic systems like Chinese characters.