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Emojiis are the hieroglyphs of our era. (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Akshually, you can often know the pronunciation of a Chinese character from one of it's radicals. I don't know how many characters this is the case for for Chinese (and how it varies between different spoken Chinese languages), but for Japanese it's like 80% of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters#Phonographs