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[-] dojan@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Well, no. It wouldn't be the first kanji of English. Kanji is the Japanese pronunciation of 漢字 (hanzi), where 漢 means han/China and 字 means character/letter. Ergo, it makes no sense to call it "the English language's first and only Chinese character."

If you need to use a Japanese word to describe this, then 絵文字 (e mo ji; picture, character/symbol) fits better, but we already have several words for that, like pictogram or pictograph. One could argue that smileys fall into this category as well. So perhaps it's a smiley.

[-] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 months ago
[-] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 13 points 6 months ago

Learning random cool stuff like this is part of why I like lemmy, and why I used to like reddit. Please don't shut down constructive contributions with low effort snark. And before you use your line on me, if I were fun at parties, I would get off lemmy and go to parties.

[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

There is a difference between "btw etymological this used to mean that but since X we use it in other contexts as well" and "no, you are wrong". The difference is one is fun at parties, the other is not.

[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

The etymological fallacy...

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