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Ideograms

2007.09.07

An ideogram or ideograph (from Greek ἰδέα idea "idea" + γράφω grapho "to write") is a graphic symbol that represents an idea, rather than a group of letters, arranged according to the phonemes of a spoken language, as is done in alphabetic languages, or a strictly representational picture of a subject as may be done in illustration or photography.

Chinese characters are conventionally called ideograms, but as each character represents a morpheme (and is useful almost always as an entire word) rather than an idea, they are more accurately called logograms.

Within the Chinese linguistic tradition, characters are divided into six categories: pictograms, ideograms, compound indicatives, phono-semantic compounds, borrowed characters and derived characters. The first four are ways characters are composed, while the last two refer to additional methods in which they are used.

Fonts and in-depths:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideogram
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_classification

36 Comments

very nice set! thanks for explanation.

InPhArt · 2007-09-07: 04:57

When I visit your side I can always learn a lot!
Thank you for this!
Have a great weekend!
;-)

SilkeHoltmann · 2007-09-07: 06:44

Love all,but prefered the two first!! Great shots,very interesting words!

Agodashi · 2007-09-07: 07:03

Wow!Great shots!!!

Helen · 2007-09-07: 07:34

Great photos :))

KC727 · 2007-09-07: 10:04

Chinese ideograms or should I say logograms are so beautiful. However, it takes such a long time to be able to write and speak Chinese! Thank you for this very interesting post ...and my favourite is the 2nd one.

Estel · 2007-09-07: 10:07

The last is really beatiful, many shades, I like it, nice.

Ikuszka · 2007-09-07: 10:13

thanks for the info .. but the last shot just is WOW ... very moody and intense and poweful...

Lindyart · 2007-09-07: 11:26

Very cool set! Love the top two especially.

Shanti · 2007-09-07: 11:44

Very informative.. Nice set.

vmathewk · 2007-09-07: 11:50

intresting. I like #1

ilkab · 2007-09-07: 12:06

#2 is my favorite, I like the composition and the depth of field. Beautiful tones too.

vollenda · 2007-09-07: 14:28

Beautiful set. My favorites are the first two—interesting compositions and dof. Thanks for the helpful explanations.

photopoet · 2007-09-07: 15:54

very interesting and such atmospheric photos

Lizzi · 2007-09-07: 17:11

The last one is wondeful and impressive. Magnificent shot.

garysktam · 2007-09-07: 19:08

wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so nice shots

daidailu520 · 2007-09-07: 22:01

very impressive !

chinesebird · 2007-09-07: 22:06

Wonderful shots! Marvellous post. Thanks for share your knowledge with us!

davidcardona · 2007-09-08: 01:35

i always love the tone of your photos, like them all

fionarobinson · 2007-09-08: 02:06

Evocative pics and great colors!!Congratulations! :)

Freyja · 2007-09-08: 03:08

very nice set. i like #1

carulcuvere · 2007-09-08: 09:02

Nice. I like #1 and #2.

neusnet · 2007-09-08: 09:45

captivating set

sandmoon · 2007-09-08: 10:08

I like the lighting on the second one.

moonunit80 · 2007-09-08: 16:27

beautiful set
Chinese is one of my native languages, but I have never found the character so beautiful till these sets. Very creative and wonderful!

misleto · 2007-09-08: 17:47

wauw! fantastic set!! I love this..

magnifica · 2007-09-09: 04:49

Well captured photographs. I like how the second one was composed.

I've to confess something. I've studied the chinese language for 12 years and i had problems reading some of the characters that you had captured!! I'm so ashamed of myself. =P

shawnseah · 2007-09-10: 01:28