ikonomatic

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A form of iconomatic — The use of pictographs to represent their sounds, as in English rebuses using an eye to mean I or in Chinese phonetic transcription of foreign terms into characters.

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Meanings

adjectiveikonomatic (comparative more ikonomatic, superlative most ikonomatic)

comparative more ikonomatic · superlative most ikonomatic

  1. alternativeuncommonAlternative form of iconomatic.

    We have, so far as I am aware, no scientific term to express this manner of phonetic writing, and I propose for it therefore the adjective ikonomatic...

    1886, Daniel Garrison Brinton, Essays of an Americanist, pages 207–8
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ikonomatic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ikonomatic

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ikonomatic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ikonomatic.

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