I’ve resurrected an old post about how both Hieroglyphic, #Chinese and #Japanese write the word for the plant “sedge” with a pretty picture. And how that “picture” is highly arbitrary and at the same time can contain phonetic information. I’m not sure the post gets my point across successfully.

#kanji #漢字 #sitelen #writing #language #Hieroglyphs

https://ketmia.net/%E6%BC%A2%E5%AD%97-blog/language-talk/Sedge-hieroglyphic-and-Japanese