[Ericson2314]

While we are continuing this chain of pedantry, few characters are in fact ideographic. Mainly the the oldest ones. Most are "Phono-semantic" i.e. a combination of "sounds like this, but means like this".

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_classificati...

BTW I recall later Egyption hieroglyphs were not strictly ideographic either, leading up to the Phonetician alphabet. I wonder how similar that process was.

[cyphar]

GP probably meant logographic rather than ideographic (and kanji are a logographic writing system), because they were making a comparison to phonographic writing systems.

I imagine most non-linguist nerds (myself included) would confuse the distinction between logographic writing systems and ideographs.