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 zographic image. Since only a very small percentage of kanji
> do this ... I can think of only about ten ... why do writers on Unicode
> lend credence to a fundamental misconception by using this term to refer
> to the whole lot?
>
oh, and BTW, Jon, what ~10 are you thinking of? I can't think of any ...
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