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

From: B (11@onna.com)
Date: Mon Jun 04 2001 - 20:09:32 EDT

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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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