作为一种古老的象形表意文字，汉字的特性与欧洲拼音文字迥然有别。
As a kind of old ideogram, the characteristics of Chinese character is different from European alphabetic writing.
象形表意的特性使汉字具有丰富的文化内涵，它以影缩的方式展现中国传统的文化意识。
Its pictographic and ideogram characteristic enriches Chinese characters with cultural connotations. They show the Chinese traditional cultural consciousness with suggestive reduction.
此前，所有学者都认为，象形文字是图像表意文字，即它们象征着物品或概念。
Until then, all scholars assumed that hieroglyphs were pictographs, that they symbolize objects or concepts.
所以这个项目就致力于把汉语与对应的象形图融合起来——我们称之为“Mandagram”(汉字表意图)。
So the project concentrates on merging Mandarin with appropriate pictograms - we call them Mandagrams.
尽管象形字可以表意，但它们并不表音。
Though pictographs indicate meanings, they do not show how they should be pronounced.
表意文字(象形文字)：图画文字的一种。绘画象形符号，表达物品；并表达由它所引起的联想意念或概念。中文字是一种表意文字。
Ideogram: a form of picture writing in which a symbol may represent the object drawn or the ideas or meanings associated with it. Chinese characters are a form of ideogram.
虽然这种辅音音素字母属于象形文字，但是其只表音，不指物也不表意。
This proto-Sinaitic alphabet of consonants was pictographic, yet each pictograph represents a sound rather than a thing or idea.
虽然这种辅音音素字母属于象形文字，但是其只表音，不指物也不表意。
This proto-Sinaitic alphabet of consonants was pictographic, yet each pictograph represents a sound rather than a thing or idea.
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