Morphogram
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morphogram-234-1068530
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Morphogram
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A morphogram is the representation of a morpheme by a grapheme based solely on its meaning. Kanji is a writing system that makes use of morphograms, where Chinese characters were borrowed to represent native morphemes because of their meanings. Thus, a single character can represent a variety of morphemes which originally all had the same meaning. An example of this in Japanese would be the grapheme 東 [east], which can be read as higashi or azuma, in addition to its logographic representation of
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphogram
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2023-08-19T03:40:17Z
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