[conlang_learners] khanjis in Sambahsa

[Olivier Simon]

Sellamat Eugene !
 
You're welcome to share with me your knowledges about Sinograms ("chinese characters" may be a gallicism: "caractères chinois"). 
I've found here some databases: http://www.cjedictionary.com/
I may use them later to improve and enrich the list I've made on my wiki. 
 
Olivier
http://sambahsa.pbworks.com/ 

--- On Sat, 7/25/09, Eugene Oh <un.doing at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Eugene Oh <un.doing at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [conlang_learners] khanjis in Sambahsa
To: conlang_learners at conlang.org
Date: Saturday, July 25, 2009, 8:32 AM





2009/7/25 Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com>



Additionally, your characters seem to be a mix of traditional forms
(龍), Chinese simplifications (鹤 鲛), and Japanese simplifications (亀 歯
猫 浅 軽), and the meanings come partly from Japanese (赤 犬) and partly
from Chinese (冰).

I'd recommend that you try to be more consistent at least in the forms
-- pick either traditional, Chinese simplifications, *or* Japanese
simplifications. Picking characters for a given meaning from only
Chinese or only Japanese is good idea, too, IMO, but the form issue
seems more important to me. (Otherwise it would be a bit like someone
from, say, Arabia borrowing Latin letters for certain uses but MiXinG
cApitAl And loWer-cAse leTTers seeMinGly hAphAzardly (A G M T W X
always big, the others always small, in this case).)




Much agreed re the mixing of forms, but in fact the meanings of the characters ("Sinograms" is a really handy way to call them, versus the much longer "Chinese characters"; did you invent the term?) are all fully understandable in Chinese. 赤 and 犬 both are still current, and still mean "red" and "dog" in Chinese.


Eugene
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