What does it mean then? What word is that?
As I mentioned in another comment in this thread: Chinese for "Spring" (Season)
Still a word. Nothing specific on what you saw first english or not.
The term "ideogram" is often used to describe symbols of writing systems such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, Sumerian cuneiform and Chinese characters. However, these symbols represent elements of a particular language, mostly words or morphemes (so that they are logograms), rather than objects or concepts.
Ideogram definition is - a picture or symbol used in a system of writing to represent a thing or an idea but not a particular word or phrase for it;
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