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Logogram

A character which conventionally represents a word or a phrase without using the letters of the alphabet. Familiar examples are 1 for one, $ for dollar and @ for at.

In a purely logographic writing system, such as that of the Chinese, all words are written with logograms. In the alphabetic English writing system, we don't require any logograms at all. But people prefer to use them, as they are a brief way of writing things that are very frequent or rather long.

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