Suzmccarth wrote:

> I had only read the introduction
> on page 291 and 292

"The characters that are now called East Asian ideographs, and known
as Han Ideographs in the Unicode Standard, were developed in the
second millennium BCE. The basic system of writing Chinese using
ideographs has not changed since that time, although the set of
ideographs, their specific shapes, and the technologies involved
have developed over the centuries. The encoding of Chinese
ideographs in the Unicode Standard is described in Section 11.1
Han. "

"Chinese is an isolating language, monosyllabic and non-inflecting,
and ideographic writing suits it well… " p. 291

It honestly never occurred to me to read section 11.1 for a
definition. I thought that would be a list of codepoints.

Suzanne McCarthy