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Hanzi for Lojban is an excellent notion (has it already been=20
entertained?) Hanzi are probably better-suited to Lojban than the Latin=20
alphabet is, and possibly better-suited to Lojban than they are to=20
Chinese. A fixed, *closed* number of roots, each representable by a=20
single figure, none needing to be related to the others... Sounds good=20
to me.

Each gismu should have a single official graph, as close as possible in=20
meaning. It will never be perfect, but the mapping of sounds to Latin=20
letters isn't perfect either, to an English-speaker. Rafsi use exactly=20
the same graph, as you propose, except they're linked together to make=20
lujvo. It's reminiscent of the distinct on/kun readings in Japanese,=20
where they have different pronunciations if they're in compound or other=20
environments. I don't like your ^ because it separates as much as joins,=20
and since there won't be spaces between the graphs in general (or will=20
there?) you wind up with lujvo-elements that are more visually separated=20
than adjacent words. Something like a COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE or=20
COMBINING DOUBLE BREVE BELOW would be nice, though I'm not sure applying=20
such non-Han diacritics to Han characters doesn't qualify as an unholy=20
abomination. Something small, some little separator that joins more than=20
it separates... Maybe something like =CB=8CMODIFIER LETTER LOW VERTICAL LIN=
E=20
or =CB=88MODIFIER LETTER VERTICAL LINE, squeezed between the rafsi-graphs?

Presumably specific graphs for the cmavo as well. There we lose the=20
cmavo/brivla distinction that the Latin writing system gives, with the=20
consonant clusters. (what might be cool is to take the cmavo-graphs from=20
katana/hiragana, which are visually distinct from the Han graphs, but=20
then you'd wind up straying pretty far from pronunciation and meaning).

And yes, some kludgy whatever for cmene and fu'ivla (these also suffer,=20
by never being able to reduce the markedness of being written all funny).

~mark

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