hieroglyphic vs logograph

hieroglyphic

noun
  • Any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph. 

  • Undecipherable handwriting or secret symbol. 

  • A writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds as a rebus 

adj
  • difficult to decipher 

  • of, relating to, or written with this system of symbols 

logograph

noun
  • a character or symbol that represents a word or phrase. 

How often have the words hieroglyphic and logograph occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )