Ideogram

An ideogram was a graphic character that represented an idea, and the use of ideograms in a written language was known as ideography. A pictogram was a type of ideogram that resembled the idea represented.
While translating the Osaarian cargo manifest acquired in 2153, Hoshi Sato discovered a symbol whose ideography she recognized from a piece of the Xindi probe that crashed on Earth. During her initial analysis, she found at least three of the symbols to be an exact match. ()
All forms of the Bajoran written language shared certain root ideograms in common. These root ideograms had both similar meanings and appearances. ()
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