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A comment on Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1. Parent comment

Re:Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1 by closetkantian on Thursday December 18, 2025 @03:51AM (#46310338)
If you're studying Chinese, maybe you realized that Chinese writing works in a very similar way.
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Re:Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1 by umanwizard on Thursday December 18, 2025 @11:10AM (#46314512)
That isn’t true.
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Re:Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1 by demetrius on Friday December 19, 2025 @10:44AM (#46327054)
It kinda is? Most Classical Chinese and Egyptian words follow the principle "deficient phonetic + semantic part", it's just that Chinese characters are split into neat squares because most Classical Chinese words are exactly one syllable long. But the general principle is similar enough.
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