Hello all, I’ve been trying for years to find out the answer to that query with little success. I travel to Hong Kong and mainland China 3 or 4 times a year and no one I’ve talked to in those countries seems to know either.
If I develop a new thing and give it a name based on the Latin alphabet, who would design an ideogram that represents that thing in a country like China? Or what would the process be?
I don’t know why needing to know this is bugging me. But it is. Thanks for any help!
Odds are that your invention would not get a new word/character. It would be use existing words/characters, like how the words for “Coca Cola” are a few existing characters put together in a novel combination.
As I understand it, it’s only the really basic words that get their own character, with most words being two or more characters put together (chosen based on their sound, meaning, or a combination of both). For instance, I remember reading that the Chinese writing of “entropy” includes the character for “fire”, since fire is one of your more common entropic processes.