Word Meaning 表意文字

ひょういもじ hyouimoji

表意文字 is read as ひょういもじ (hyouimoji) and means ideogram.

Meaning

English

  1. ideogram
  2. ideograph
  3. ideographic script

Reading

Kana

ひょういもじ

Romaji

hyouimoji

Stroke Sequence

4 Characters • 31 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N3 Jōyō Grade 3 Kanken 8級 Antonyms 表音文字 Rank 64144 Priority K

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

表示文字実体集合

ひょうじもじじったいしゅうごう

display character entity set

文字表示装置

もじひょうじそうち

character display (device)

表外字

ひょうがいじ

non-jōyō kanji

表意

ひょうい

ideography

表意定数

ひょういていすう

figurative constant

横文字

よこもじ

European language

頭文字

かしらもじ

initials (of one's name)

絵文字

えもじ

ASCII art

大和文字

やまともじ

Japanese syllabary symbols

表示印字式計算器

ひょうじいんじしきけいさんき

display and printing calculator

文字

もじ

writing

大文字

おおもじ

huge character "dai" formed by fires lit on the side of a mountain in Kyoto on August 16 each year

Example Sentences

1

One of the reasons Twitter is popular in Japan is a characteristic of Japanese itself: Japanese uses ideograms which enable it to convey more information in just 140 characters than other languages, not counting Chinese. Incidentally, the Japanese version of this sentence is written with exactly 140 characters. How many characters does it take in other languages?