logogram

You can't do that with a logogram script, or if your first language is sign language.

The use of "u" and "2" is exactly the same; their use is as phonetic grams and not logograms.

Now I gather there is a phonetic aspect to Chinese, but largely Chinese uses logograms, where the symbol stands for the word.

Chinese uses only hanzi and you have a limited set of logogram combinations that result in a word.

Yup:> The ampersand is the logogram &, representing the conjunction "and".

Chinese characters are closer to logograms than ideograms.

These ever-growing icon fonts make me wonder whether the Chinese were on to something when they designed their logograms.

Their systems are designed for 2-4 character logogram names, so if you are using a 15-30 character alpha numeric name, then good luck.

[3] might be an interesting trade-off between logogram and phonetic alphabet.

Other than the extra difficulties of logograms vs phonograms, another barrier is that one need to translate the fast writings back to "normal" ones for easy reads later.

Hieroglyphs more commonly refer to the Ancient Egyptian writing system, whereas logogram and logograph are more general terms.

Specifically, a logogram represents an idea regardless of its pronunciation.