different between ideograph vs lexigraph

English

ideo- +? -graph

ideograph (plural ideographs)

lexi- +? -graph

lexigraph (plural lexigraphs)

(linguistics) A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.
- 2006, Noël J. Nickson and Laurence E. R. Picken, Music from the Tang Court: Some Ancient Connections Explored [1], ?ISBN, page 50:
  "Be that as it may, it is certain that the lexigraph for hayashi is not a Japanese creation, but a nowadays-forgotten Chinese character..."
- 2006, James A.W. Heffernan, "Speaking for Pictures" in Writing and Seeing: Essays on Word and Image [2], ?ISBN, page 43:
  "He does not want them to be read as we might read a lexigraph, a postmodern painting of words such as Joseph Kosuth's red..."

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