The correct term is logogram or logograph. Hieroglyphs more commonly refer to the Ancient Egyptian writing system, whereas logogram and logograph are more gene

The correct term is logogram or logograph. Hieroglyphs more commonly refer to the Ancient Egyptian writing system, whereas logogram and logograph are more general terms. Ideogram/graph refer to a specific type of logogram in which the character represents a specific idea or concept, but only a small minority of Chinese characters are ideograms. For more information, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logogram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logogram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_classification http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_classificatio...