- ideographs and phonograms
- Japanese is a system that has both
- ECG
- Electrocardiogram
- Examples also used in alphabetic cultures
- mathematical symbol
- More information per character
- And that’s a lot of work per letter.
- Japanese phonetic alphabet is a simplified version of ideograms from China.
- pictograph
- It is natural for cultures that use phonetic letters to give meaning to a single letter.
- hieroglyph
- Picture Simplification
- idiom
- German (language)
- Letters may be newly created.
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