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Japanese kanji and Chinese characters are very much the same. Japanese has 3 alphabets- hiragana (which is used for everyday writing), katakana (used for English words like "terebi" which is television), and kanji which is used instead of hiragana for nouns and adjectives etc. However, Chinese only have kanji, although they call it something else.
The reason they are so alike is because the Japanese borrowed that alphabet off the Chinese, so a lot of Chinese characters will have the same meaning as Japanese kanji, although they will be pronounced differently.
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β 12y agoJapanese uses hiragana and katakana and kanji while Chinese is just Chinese characters (kanji) but sometimes more complex. Japanese kanji is the simplified Chinese writing.
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What was the relationship between Chinese and Japanese writing?
Japanese and Chinese writings are different, but in some cases use the same characters.Japanese uses different writing systems:Hirigana - Used for native Japanese wordsKatakana - Mainly used when writing foreign wordsKanji - These are characters that were borrowed from the Chinese WritingRomaji - This is used when writing Japanese characters with the Latin AlphabetChinese uses characters that they call Hanzi.Hanzi is called by different names in other countries. But in Japanese it is called Kanji.Kanji are the Chinese characters that the Japanese use along with their other writing systems (Hirigana & Katakana) . Though in Japanese one character of Kanji and represent many syllables.
How many different writing styles do the Japanese use?
The Japanese use three writing systems: hiragana (cursive), katakana (print), and kanji (borrowed from the Chinese).
What inspiered Japanese writing?
The Chinese symbols.
Is Chinese and Japanese language same?
Chinese has different sounds, lettering, and meanings to their writings. Japanese is the same way but Japanese do borrow the Chinese lettering from the Chinese and but the Japanese do have their own pronunciation for it. They are still different languages.
Are Japanese and Chinese cultures the same?
Japanese writing system was based off the Chinese writing system, and their two "alphabets" Hiragana and Katakana are heavily corrupted fragments of Chinese characters. They do use Kanji, which is Chinese characters used for indication. However, the two languages are linguistically different.
What is the combination of Japanese writing?
the combination is chinese and indian language.
Are Chinese and Japanese mutually intelligible?
Absolutely not. Japanese writing differs largely from Chinese with the exception of a variety of kanji (while the Chinese characters may match in meaning with the Japanese kanji, they are almost always pronounced entirely differently). In addition, they are not even in the same language family, and have different gramatical systems.
What was the early Japanese writing system like?
The early Japanese writing system was heavily influenced by Chinese characters, known as kanji. Over time, the Japanese developed two phonetic scripts, hiragana and katakana, to supplement kanji. This combination of characters allowed for more flexible and expressive writing.
Which form of Japanese wring overlaps with Chinese?
Writing?? It is Kanji they are similar
What form of Japanese writing is most common?
Kanji, Chinese characters.
Japanese writing system based on Chinese characters?
The Japanese writing system, known as kanji, is based on Chinese characters. Kanji are adopted characters from Chinese writing, with each character representing a word or concept. In addition to kanji, the Japanese writing system also includes hiragana and katakana, which are syllabic scripts.
Who introduced the Chinese writing system to the Japanese?
Korean scribes
