> From: DougEwell2@cs.com [mailto:DougEwell2@cs.com]
> For the Han characters, I have found in the past that people
> whose native
> language does not use these characters usually refer to them
> as "Chinese."
> Obviously (to us anyway), calling them "Chinese characters"
> is not adequate,
> so we search for alternatives.
Consider:
"Hanzi" -> "Chinese characters"
"Kanji" -> "Chinese characters"
"Hanja" -> "Chinese characters"
...so it would seem that everyone but us agrees on what to call 'em.
/|/|ike
P.S. While "Han" and "Chinese" are not interchangeable when referring to
people (i.e. the Han people are only a majority subset of the Chinese
people), in this case the difference is virtually indistinguishable, so I
use them interchangeably.
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