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In addition, the nine- or five-stroke character for wind is, in the Chinese syllabary, a radical — meaning that it, like the wind itself, is regarded as of major importance within the entire structure of Chinese language and culture.
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Big Think, 18 Nov. 2025
There is no emoji alphabet or syllabary with which to construct arbitrary words or sentences, nor is there one in sight.
—Longreads, 1 July 2025
This syllabary allowed reading, writing and later printing to prosper in the Cherokee Nation.
—Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Feb. 2023
The museum’s new curator Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, who organized the exhibition, is pictured above with a selection of that sui-generis syllabary.
—The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2022
With a collaborator, Rozin devised an experimental curriculum that moved children through degrees of linguistic abstraction by teaching them Chinese logographs followed by a Japanese syllabary, and only then applying the same logic to English.
—New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
The Cherokees had developed a syllabary and published their own newspaper.
—David Treuer, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
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Big Think, 18 Nov. 2025
There is no emoji alphabet or syllabary with which to construct arbitrary words or sentences, nor is there one in sight.
—Longreads, 1 July 2025
This syllabary allowed reading, writing and later printing to prosper in the Cherokee Nation.
—Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Feb. 2023
The museum’s new curator Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, who organized the exhibition, is pictured above with a selection of that sui-generis syllabary.
—The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2022
With a collaborator, Rozin devised an experimental curriculum that moved children through degrees of linguistic abstraction by teaching them Chinese logographs followed by a Japanese syllabary, and only then applying the same logic to English.
—New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
The Cherokees had developed a syllabary and published their own newspaper.
—David Treuer, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
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“Syllabary.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/syllabary. Accessed 28 Nov. 2025.
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syllabary
noun
syl·la·bary
ˈsil-ə-ˌber-ē 
plural syllabaries
: a set of written characters each of which stands for a syllable
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