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 acti
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??
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Babcock
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 3:17 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Why call kanji/hanji/hanja 'ideographs' when almost none are?
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 profession
> 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 th
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
> soun
"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 ideogr
So by this definition, are all digits and most currency symbols ideographs?
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. Meanwhile, the glossary does give
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
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 zographic image. Since o
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