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zajio1am on April 15, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: UTF-8 Everywhere

It is not logographic, but characters still have meaning - associtated phonemes. Although this is less clear in English, it is emphasized in other languages.

And this mapping is different between languages. So 'c' in English has different meaning to 'c' in Czech.

anoncake on April 17, 2020 [–]

Not really. Morphemes are considered (defined even) as the smallest unit that has meaning by itself.

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