iconomatic

Etymology
A clipping of earlier, from a modern combination of +   +.

Adjective

 * 1) The use of pictographs to represent their sounds, as in English rebuses using an eye to mean I or in Chinese phonetic transcription of foreign terms into characters.
 * 2) * 1887 January 22, "Iconomatic Writing", Scientific American, Vol. 56, No. 4, p. 56:
 * Iconomatic writing... occupies an intermediate position, standing in some sense in relation to both letter and picture writing.
 * Iconomatic writing... occupies an intermediate position, standing in some sense in relation to both letter and picture writing.