1. Xiashan Hughes March 10, 2014 World Literature A2

2.  Japanese originated from Chinese characters  Chinese originated from Japanese?  Ancient people 3000 years ago

3.  Both use ideograms  70%-80% with same character meaning  Mistakes often made

4.  Chinese monosyllabic, Japanese polysyllabic  After WWII both simplified language  简体字 (ji ǎ nt ǐ zì) “simplified Chinese characters”  新字体 (shinjitai) “Simplified Japanese characters” 新字体 (shinjitai)  Katakana, hiragana, kanji

5.  Hanzi 漢字  Simplified easier to tell apart  Mandarin/Cantonese  多音字 duoinzi “multiple reading characters”

6.  Kanji 漢字  a, e, I, o, u  consonant/vowel

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