Richard Cook asked which kanji I was thinking of that probably warrant
the term 'ideograph'.
And Michael ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) answered:
Characters like 'above', 'below', 'center' ... depends on what you are
willing to accept as 'an idea' and when you start calling it a 'snapshot
of an
Call 'em this: U+6F22 U+5B57 (漢字). If you want to know what to call them in
running English text, just call them "Han characters", since that is what the Asians
call them in their own languages.
I mean, who is the real U+3070 U+304B U+3084 U+308D U+3046 here??
oh, and BTW, Jon, what ~10 are you thinking of? I can't think of any ...
Characters like 'above', 'below', 'center' ... depends on what you are
willing to accept as 'an idea' and when you start calling it a 'snapshot of
an action' like the words for 'music/medicine', 'learn' etc.
Apart from
Jon,
Most Kanji have Kun readings. The fact that they also have On readings as
well is not material. Calling Kanji ideographic is referring to their Kun
properties.
I find that most foreigners who know nothing about Japanese are completely
unaware of On readings and how Kanji are also used as
John H. Jenkins wrote:
At 4:16 PM -0600 6/1/01, Jon Babcock wrote:
The Asia/East Asian/CJK thread reminded me of one of my own pet
peeves, the use of 'ideograph' to refer to kanji.
Perhaps some of the professionals on this list can enlighten me
here. I thought that an ideograph meant
Jon Babcock wrote:
The Asia/East Asian/CJK thread reminded me of one of my own pet peeves,
the use of 'ideograph' to refer to kanji.
Perhaps some of the professionals on this list can enlighten me here. I
thought that an ideograph meant that the graph stood for an idea, not a
sound or a
At 4:16 PM -0600 6/1/01, Jon Babcock wrote:
The Asia/East Asian/CJK thread reminded me of one of my own pet
peeves, the use of 'ideograph' to refer to kanji.
Perhaps some of the professionals on this list can enlighten me
here. I thought that an ideograph meant that the graph stood for an
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