The radical-and-stroke system, or some similar pattern-matching and stroke-counting method, was traditionally the only practical method for constructing dictionaries that someone could use to look up a logograph whose pronunciation was unknown.
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Xu Shen lacked access to oracle bone inscriptions from the Shang Dynasty and bronzeware inscriptions from the Shang and Western Zhou Dynasty, to which scholars now have access; they are often critical for understanding the structures and origins of logographs.
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Chinese lexicography dichotomizes two kinds of dictionaries : traditional " zidian " (, lit . " character / logograph dictionary " ) for written Chinese characters and modern " cidian " ( " word / phrase dictionary " ) for spoken expressions.
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Whether by accident or genealogical generation name poems typical of Asian name conventions, many has remarked upon the fact that his personal name, in Han Chinese logograph, is a first repetition of the Emperor's personal name within the clan after more than four thousand years.
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The number of symbols used in the codex is about ten times higher than any known alphabet ( N�m�ti counted 792 ), but most symbols are used rarely, so the symbols in the codex might not be an alphabet, but a syllabary, or logographs like Chinese characters.
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Another significant finding of this study done by Qiu and Zhang ( 2008 ), was a late positive component ( LPC ) in successful guessing of the logograph and then recognition of the answer at 600 and 700 ms, post-stimulus, in the parahippocampal gyrus ( BA34 ).
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:By the way, Hieratic does not have an alphabet like English : it has one-consonant signs ( or uniliterals ), signs for two or three consonants ( biliterals and triliterals ) and signs for determinatives and logographs . Gareth Hughes 11 : 49, 20 June 2006 ( UTC)
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"Die Zeit ", the largest German weekly newspaper, featured Wikipedia on its title page with the headline " Das gr��te Werk der Menschen " ( " the greatest work of human beings " ); its coverage included an article by German Wikipedian Logograph about the daily work of an administrator.
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Logographs belonging to the third principle, phono-semantic compound characters ( " x�ngshng " b _ r� ), are implicitly identified through the entry pattern " A & from B, phonetically resembles C " ( " A . . . ?_ B, C r� " ), meaning that element B plays a semantic role in A, while C gives the sound.
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Carr ( 1995 : 11 ) characterizes �i as " a doubly exceptional logograph "; it is an ideograph " character representing an idea " ( which is an infrequent type of logograph " character representing a word ", see Chinese character classification ), and it is a " kokuji " �VW [ " national character; Japanese-made character " ( rather than a typical " kanji " " oW [ " Chinese character " loanword ).
