Well, just to be ultra-pedantic (shock!), I'd have said that in (all) these cases, they'd have more of the character of ideograms than of logograms; they're trans-linguistic, and don't even necessarily have a fixed "reading" even in a given language. (Witness "Change" vs "Motion" vs. "Mobility" vs. "Mastakos" vs "Larnste" vs "Movement" vs... did I miss any?)
Cheers,
Alex.
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