"semantogram" meaning in English

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          "text": "\"the majority of Jurchen signs, which included both semantograms and phonograms, were inventions.\"",
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          "text": "One could write OJ namyi ‘wave’ with the sinograph for a Chinese morpheme of similar meaning: 波 EMC *pa ‘wave.’ 波 *pa ‘wave’ would then be a semantogram for OJ namyi, serving as a translation of OJ namyi without representing its sound.",
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      "ipa": "/sɪˈmæn.tə.ɡɹæm/"
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      "ipa": "/səˈmæn.tə.ɡɹæm/",
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