The long process of creating a Chinese font

Re:The long process of creating a Chinese font by gizmo686 on Friday December 18, 2015 @10:00PM (#10762431)

I am not familiar with Chinese, but in Japanese, the characters do not necessarily map 1 to 1 with words, so you have some words that are composed of multiple characters. For example, "adult" would be written as 大人, which are the characters "big" and "person".

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Re:The long process of creating a Chinese font by jessriedel on Saturday December 19, 2015 @10:49AM (#10763851)

Sure, but the script speed-reading advantage only comes at the level of having single symbols for single meaning. Once you need to combine symbols to get the (additional) meanings, you're not any faster than phonetics.

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Re:The long process of creating a Chinese font by jiyinyiyong on Saturday December 19, 2015 @11:30AM (#10763974)

Yeah, just like the words "handwriting", "television", "sunshine", "seafood", the meaning of the whole character can be inferred from the parts.

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