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| Jul 17, 2015 at 7:39 | vote | accept | wyc | ||
| Jul 16, 2015 at 7:49 | comment | added | rogermue | When I use the term word sign this implies I speak of the writing system and not of the pronunciation of the words. This dictionary shows that most signs are compound signs. mdbg.net/chindict/… - There are signs for sounds, syllables, and words. These are no ad hoc terms, but simple, systematic terms, and characters, glyphs, ideograms are either vague or complicated. | |
| Jul 16, 2015 at 7:08 | comment | added | ruakh | Re: "Chinese signs are signs for a whole word": That's a common misconception (not least among the Chinese themselves). Most linguists now agree that the great majority of words actually have two syllables in both Mandarin and Cantonese (not sure about other Chinese languages), whereas almost every character represents only one syllable. But even if that were not the case, I don't see how you could suggest that "the clearest designation" would be an ad hoc coinage that no one uses or recognizes, as opposed to the familiar "character" that is widely used with this exact sense. | |
| Jul 16, 2015 at 4:22 | history | edited | rogermue | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 16, 2015 at 3:09 | history | edited | rogermue | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 16, 2015 at 2:19 | history | answered | rogermue | CC BY-SA 3.0 |