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Originally Posted by IcewindDude
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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Welcome to the forums, IcewindDude. You are coming in with both guns blazing. We can talk nice to each other.
Chinese and Japanese writings are not ancient and extinct writing systems, but are active and alive and are used by well over a billion people daily, so logogram is a part of the writing for both Chinese and Japanese, but not all characters in each language are logograms, so "characters" is the right term.