Re: German with Hanzi/Kanji/Hanja?

Hi!

Tristan McLeay writes:
>...
>>   http://wiki.frath.net/Hangraphy
>
> I can't speak for Henrik, but my idea of applying it to English is
> evidently different. In Hangraphy, characters apply to IE morphemes, so
> "werewolf" and "virtue" both begin with the same character,
> representing the PIE morpheme *wī-ro-. Under my system, whereas
> "werewolf" might be spelt [human][wolf], "virtue" would be spelt
> [virtue] or [good][quality] ...
I haven't decided yet what I like best.  It would seem that I need to
look into it more closely to decide which system I find best suited.
I do feel that due to German's strong compositional tendencies, I'd
want to go for one Hanzi per (German) stem, but this might indeed be
very complicated because obviously, Hanzi are made for Chinese stems
and thus there is no one-to-one correspondence with German.  Also,
there are many Latin and Greek words in German I would first try to
analyse and compound with corresponding Hanzi, but this would get even
more complicated.

So in short: I do not know yet what I'd do, but I find assigning Hanzi
to German/Latin stems very appealing.  It might turn out to be
infeasible, though.

**Henrik

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