Well, no. It wouldn't be the first kanji of English. Kanji is the Japanese pronunciation of 漢字 (hanzi), where 漢 means han/China and 字 means character/letter. Ergo, it makes no sense to call it "the English language's first and only Chinese character."

If you need to use a Japanese word to describe this, then 絵文字 (e mo ji; picture, character/symbol) fits better, but we already have several words for that, like pictogram or pictograph. One could argue that smileys fall into this category as well. So perhaps it's a smiley.

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

The etymological fallacy...

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I bet you're fun at parties

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holy molly

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[–] SwordInStone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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I wonder, why they mentioned highlight,

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

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I’m so glad I learned about this

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[–] regdog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yoo, new Kanji just dropped!

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[–] dubious@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it would definitely take millennials to obsess over the most forgettable comic ever.

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