• hypertown@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Japanese kanji are from China. While reading is obviously different they share many characteristics. Just like our alphabet hasn’t been invented in England even though we’re using it to write English

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        8 months ago

        Oracle Bone, Bronze, Seal, Traditional and Simplified Hanzi are all Chinese. Only Kanji is Japanese and only by proxy, so this meme is like 70% Chinese and 30% Japanese. You would know that if you learned Japanese.