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If they stood for a single word, it would not be alphabetic. An alphabet is comprised of a set of symbols each of which has a sound value, so a word is a combination of several symbols.
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In Chinese writing system What do characters stand for?
characters stand for symbols or letters like our alphabet.
In the Chinese writing system what do characters stand for?
characters stand for symbols or letters like our alphabet.
Why do Koreans write with symbols and not words and letters?
what are you talking about? Koreans don't write with symbols, they have their own alphabet. if you categorize the Korean alphabet as symbols then all the known languages write with symbols technically i guess all the writing systems are symbols because the marks stand for something else like sounds and such
How is our system of writing similar to hieroglyphics?
Letters stand for sounds just as hieroglyphic symbols stand for sounds. ... It had 600 symbols, rather than the 26 in our alphabet. It could be written horizontally or vertically, left to right or right to left.
What is the entire hieroglyphic alphabet?
There is no such thing as a hieroglyphic alphabet. The Egyptians used about 700 hieroglyphs to represent the sounds and meaning of their language.See http://www.egyptianhieroglyphs.net/gardiners-sign-list/
What does abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz stand for?
the alphabet
What does abcdefghijhutnhfyhegrjjeerkrithy stand for?
i think its the alphabet
What do the s stand for?
the 19th letter in the alphabet
What does stand Aphrodite's symbols stand for?
love and passion <3
How was the Phoenicians alphabet different from writings such as cuneiform?
The Phoenicians invented a phonetic alphabet, in which a letter symbolizes a sound, and those sounds can be put together to make words. Other writing systems were in the form of ideograms, in which symbols stand for ideas rather than sounds. The phonetic alphabet has proved to be tremendously more useful.
What does V stand for in the ancient china alphabet?
vong
What does 26LotA stand for?
26 letters of the alphabet.
