FYI: More emoji from Chrome

[Asmus Freytag]

On 4/2/2014 4:05 AM, Koji Ishii wrote:
> On Apr 2, 2014, at 7:19 PM, Asmus Freytag <asmusf at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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>> On 4/2/2014 1:42 AM, Christopher Fynn wrote:
>>> Rather than Emoji it might be better if people learnt Han ideographs
>>> which are also compact (and  a far more developed system of
>>> communication than emoji). One  CJK character can also easily replace
>>> dozens of Latin characters - which is what is being claimed for emoji.
>> One wonders why the Japanese, who already know Han ideographs, took to emoji as they did....
> All the ancient emoji characters we inherited from our ancestors were already turned into Han ideographs like this[1][2], so we needed new ones to add more Han ideographs in next centuries ;)
You may be on to something :)
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> [1] http://ameblo.jp/happy2525tkg/entry-11541848940.html
> [2] http://ameblo.jp/happy2525tkg/entry-11578197418.html
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> /koji
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