I had been thinking about the invention of writing in human history when I realised I didn't know its Japanese translation. What would be the closest word for the following definition of "writing":
Writing is a medium of human communication that involves the representation of a language through a system of physically inscribed, mechanically transferred, or digitally represented symbols... - [1]
I have come across 筆記 and 執筆, but judging from their dictionary and Wikipedia entries, 筆記 seems to be the closest one [2].
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