For example, in English, you might type something like:

r u going out 2nite?

Instead of:

Are you going out tonight?

How does that sort of thing work when texting in a logographic language? Is it just emoji city, or can they mix and match characters to make things more compact?

And similarly, is there a formal journalistic shorthand system that gets used when jotting down comments in real-time, e.g. in China, Korea or Japan?

Thank you kindly!

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    20 hours ago

    how easy is it (e.g., number of key presses) to get 鐵 on your keyboard? it looks massively complicated, I’m counting like 22 strokes or so