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by samatman 1317 days ago
Apropos of approximately nothing, I had a hunch what this was about and was completely wrong!

The Hanzi had me going for about five seconds; they don't mean 和.

Anyway, if anyone does write a programming language with keywords and text in Kanji, let us know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa_(Japanese_culture)

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Since Classical Chinese is ancestral to kanji, you might be interested in https://wy-lang.org/
> The Hanzi had me going for about five seconds; they don't mean 和.

You mean Pinyin (拼音), not Hanzi (漢字).

This new information make Wario a completely different character to me
> His name is a portmanteau of Mario's name and the Japanese word warui (悪い), meaning "bad".