Fish-in-fish matryoshka sinoglyph
Language Log 2024-04-14
Egas Moniz-Bandeira on Twitter/X:
It's cute, clever, fun, but do the Chinese need it as part of their bloated (!) writing system?
Does Unicode need this inessential / nonessential / unessential sinoglyph as part of the world's functional writing systems?
Selected reading
- "Cucurbits and junk characters" (3/30/24)
- "Another "variant" character" (4/7/24)
- "Polysyllabic sinoglyphs" (4/11/24)
- "The economics of Chinese character usage" (9/2/11)
- "How many more Chinese characters are needed?" (10/25/16)
- "The infinitude of Chinese characters" (10/9/20) — with an extremely lengthy bibliography
[h.t. Geoff Wade]