{"id":8356,"date":"2019-05-22T16:06:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/logographic_writing_systems\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:06:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:49","slug":"logographic_writing_systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/logographic_writing_systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Logographic writing systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A system of writing in which the printed symbols represent entire words without relating to pronunciation. &nbsp;The main &nbsp;contemporary example of this system is Chinese whose characters, or logograms, are used with various degrees of modifications in Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese and a number of other East Asian languages. &nbsp;Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and the writing system of the Mayans also had examples of logographic features. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"alphabetic_writing_systems\">Alphabetic writing systems<\/a>, <a href=\"kana_scripts\">Kana scripts<\/a>, <a href=\"orthography\">Orthography<\/a>, <a href=\"syllabary\">Syllabary<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A system of writing in which the printed symbols represent entire words without relating to pronunciation. &nbsp;The main &nbsp;contemporary example of this system is Chinese whose characters, or logograms, are used with various degrees of modifications in Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese and a number of other East Asian languages. &nbsp;Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and the writing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/logographic_writing_systems\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Logographic writing systems&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}