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marina_bonomiI've been doing a quick web search about Chinese symbols to get a few ideas to pass to a friend (jet-lagged brain doesn't work that well yet on its own), and I discovered that my search parameters 'Chinese symbol warrior' do not yeld actual symbols as result ( like, you know 'tiger traditionally represents strenght', 'the carp was the symbol for a student' and so on).
What I get are pages and pages of Chinese characters meaning warrior.
This drives me crazy, those aren't symbols those aren't even ideograms (ideograms are a specific class of Chinese characters, just like pictograms, for instance), those are characters or if you want to get technical, logograms, a writing system, possibly the oldest writing system still in use.
What I get are pages and pages of Chinese characters meaning warrior.
This drives me crazy, those aren't symbols those aren't even ideograms (ideograms are a specific class of Chinese characters, just like pictograms, for instance), those are characters or if you want to get technical, logograms, a writing system, possibly the oldest writing system still in use.
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Date: 2010-08-14 09:46 pm (UTC)cultural symbols? Or symbols - writing?
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Date: 2010-08-17 06:17 am (UTC)