At 4:48 PM +0000 1/31/05, Sam Rowlands wrote:
I beg to differ with the comment below, as Japanese has some major
different characters to Chinese, albeit some are very similar in
look and meaning.
You must be differing with the description of kanji as "Chinese
characters" -- but this is indeed how they are referred to and
described in Japanese. This is compared to romaji, which are
standard Roman characters, and hiragana or katakana, which are
(each) a phonetic alphabet. I think the reference to kanji as
Chinese characters has more to do with their origin than with their
similarity today.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled on-topic posts... :)
Best,
- Joe
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