Linguistics & Language · Writing Systems & Decipherment
A topic within Writing Systems & Decipherment, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Linguistics & Language.
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Gina Marie Elia (TED-Ed)
Traces Chinese characters from early pictographs to the modern script, arguing that most characters are not pictures at all but a combination of a meaning component and a sound component.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Victor H. Mair (ed.)
Collects papers arguing that Chinese characters function through sound as much as meaning like every other writing system, and traces how the script has been reformed, romanised and adapted across the Sinitic-writing world.