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On the 27th of March of 2015, I first encounter now the word "tetragram." It is apparently any square-shaped symbol of a complex writing system in the Sinosphere. A sinogram, or sinograph, is a tetragram. It is my first time of learning that term. "Tetra" means four. Japanese Kana are tetragrams, as well as Korean Hangeul, because they are square-shaped, too.
Source: tatoeba (10713870)
Japanese use a lot of sinograms. Many sinograms have a categorizing radical along with a phonetic hint radical, historically for Chinese. Sometimes, Japanese borrow a sinogram and pronounce it with a Japanese native reading, so the original Chinese historicity becomes semi-irrelevant. In a way, Japanese writing is a real mishmash.
Source: tatoeba (11218428)
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