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by user982 249 days ago
Additionally, syllabaries (like the kana) are not alphabets.
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You are technically correct! Alphabets (ABC) are for phonemes, syllabaries are for syllables (hiragana, Cherokee), logograms are for words (chinese characters). Of course, some writing systems are very much hybrids (like Chinese, or hieroglyphics, or even the humble ampersand).
To be sure, 'logogram' is an even worse word than 'ideograph' for what the Chinese writing system is.
Nonsense.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alphabet

> al·pha·bet

> a set of letters or other characters with which one or more languages are written especially if arranged in a customary order

And then it shows an Alphabet Table beginning with Hebrew and Arabic.