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by rangibaby
3592 days ago
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Japan certainly adapted kanji to fit the Japanese language, but I was not aware of a dispute about the origin of the characters. Obviously they have diverged; Japan has made efforts to simplify kanji forms, although not to the extent of zh-cn, unless you count hiragana and katakana, which are derived from kanji: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Hiragana... As a side note, I was taught that Japanese "Chinese" readings have more in common with the Chinese spoken at the time than modern Chinese. |
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Yup. There are even names for the various readings based on which era/dynasty they were borrowed during. E.g. for the readings of 明, "myo" was borrowed first, then "mei" a few centuries later, then "min" most recently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji#On.27yomi_.28Sino-Japane...