Ouch... the nuances... How about pictographs? Fit your fancy?
I mean, technically, aren't the kanji simplified pictures with associated meanings derived therefrom (although some of those original meanings are lost)? Hieroglyphics are very similar in that way.
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Originally Posted by MMM
Explain how the Native Americans exported their non-existent written language to the Chinese.
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I was misunderstood. I was referring to the previous fad, not the precursor to the Chinese writing.
Concerning tattoos, to many the skin is just another canvas for art, however they wish to express it. It makes it no more or less wrong.