Re: Why call kanji/hanji/hanja 'ideographs' when almost none are?

2001-06-02 Thread Richard Cook
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

Re: Why call kanji/hanji/hanja 'ideographs' when almost none are?

2001-06-02 Thread Richard Cook
"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