Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

[Ng Pheng Siong]

According to Pascal Bourguignon  <spam at thalassa.informatimago.com>:
> Well,  I would say  that kanji  is badly  designed, compared  to latin
> alphabet.   The voyels  are composed  with consones  (with diacritical
> marks) and  consones are  written following four  or five  groups with
> additional diacritical  marks to  distinguish within the  groups. It's
> more a phonetic code than a true alphabet.

Kanji are ideograms borrowed from Chinese. Kanji literally means "Han
character". 

I think the diacritical marks you mention are pronunciation guides, much
like Hanyu Pinyin is a Mandarin pronunciation guide for Chinese.

In Hanyu Pinyin, Kanji (read as a Chinese word phrase) is rendered "han4
zi4". 

In Korean, Kanji is pronounced Hanja.

Same two-character word phrase, different pronunciations.


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