noun, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'
logogram; logograph
A technical term in linguistics and writing systems for a character that represents a word or morpheme, such as Chinese characters or Egyptian hieroglyphs.
漢字は表語文字の一種である。
Kanji are a type of logogram.
表語文字の例として、古代
Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs are given as an example of logograms.
From 表語 (representing a word) + 文字 (character). A modern linguistic term coined to describe logographic writing systems.