Alphabets can have word-like signs {glyph, sign}|.
In ancient Egypt, pictographs {hieroglyph, picture}| represented words or syllables.
Figures {ideogram}| {ideograph} can be for objects or symbols, not sounds. Ideograms can have added unpronounced semantic signs to denote categories.
Writing can have non-phonetic signs {isotype} of universal meaning.
Pictured objects {logogram}| can represent objects or sounds. Logograms can represent first word sounds {acrophony, logogram}.
Pictograms {petroglyph}| can be on rocks.
In Chinese, symbols {phonetic, symbol} {phonetic complement} within compound ideographs can suggest pronunciation.
Pictures {pictogram}| can denote objects and sounds.
6-Linguistics-Writing-Alphabet
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