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How will I know if a symbol is a Chinese character and not a Japanese kanji?
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β 12y ago
You either won't or you will. Kanji are Chinese characters, so by themselves you won't know the difference unless the characters only make sense in one language and not the other.
But, when the Japanese write, they punctuate with particles are such. So, when you see things like hiragana and/or katakana, you will know that the what you are reading is Japanese.
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