Ideograph in a sentence as a noun

Its not so much a skeumorph as a well-recognized ideograph.

Kids today know that 'floppy disk' means save because... floppy disk has 'always' been the ideograph for save.

> Out of curiosity, which Korean ideograph would that be?Yu.

Out of curiosity, which Korean ideograph would that be?

71,000 ideographs encoded in 17 years amounts to just over 4000 ideographs per year.

In the Network control panel, the adapter name is random Chinese ideograph.

Isn't the real problem that you can't guarantee correct rendering of ideograph text without specifying fonts?

Wouldn't that save a large number of code points?Their reply:A: The Han ideographic script is largely compositional in nature.

There's a certain beauty in the ideograph system: you may not know how to pronounce the characters, but you could figure out a meaning out of it.

So basically when they don't have a word for a new concept they devise a new one made of existing radical+ideograph+ideograph.

Indeed, the bulk of the work currently done by the IRG would still have to be done for composed ideographs in order to provide support for them beyond rendering.

In practice, the Chinese language typically represents concepts in 2 or 4 ideograph segments.

It’s not a format I’ve seen used either, but it isn’t as if the Japanese perfectly retained Chinese conventions for ideograph usage either.

It's a bit like people know that 'a' means the first letter of the English alphabet because... it's an ideograph that means that by convention - even though in handwriting it's written differently.

The rules for what you want to do on backspace are complex - you want to delete the grapheme cluster if it's an emoji or ideograph with variation selector, but if it's a combining mark, most of the time you want to just delete that.

Fun fact about stroke orders, many people regard Chinese ideograph as some sort of bitmap, but if you watch calligraphy artists[1] you will discover they are not only some straight lines, but the the speed and acceleration also varies when drawing different part of the line.

They can also be listed by what in English are called Radicals - foundational shapes composing the Kanji ideograph, they can be listed by strokes count or be listed by their Chinese reading - the Japanese sound of the equivalent Chinese Kanji, or even by recurrence.

Either the rendering process would have to be sophisticated enough to take such ideographic idiosyncrasies into account, or the encoding model would have to provide more information than just the geometric relationship between the composing pieces.

Ideograph definitions

noun

a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it; "Chinese characters are ideograms"

See also: ideogram