A logographic script is a writing system that primarily uses logograms, written characters that represent a semantic component of a language, such as a word or morpheme, and such a system is called a logography. The cited article, titled Logogram, says Chinese characters as used in Chinese and other languages are logograms, as are Egyptian hieroglyphs and characters in cuneiform script, and that non-logographic writing systems such as alphabets and syllabaries are phonemic, their symbols representing sounds directly. It adds that all known logographies have some phonetic component, generally based on the rebus principle. Scripts the atlas records as logographic are grouped under this entry.
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Entity-backed identity for the script type value this script already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a script entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.
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In a written language, a logogram (from Ancient Greek logos 'word', and gramma 'that which is drawn or written'), also logograph or lexigraph, is a written character that represents a semantic component of a language, such as a word or morpheme.
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