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minus-squareGrimble [he/him,they/them]hexbear20·edit-22 years agoYeah, hirigana and katakana are easy to learn as alphabets with phonetic symbols, but as soon as the kanji w/ chinese loaned symbols starts god help you link
minus-squareconstellation [none/use name]hexbear8·2 years agoJapanese has fewer than 2000 kanji. That's it. Once you've learned those, you're done. Chinese has 5000 hanzi if you want to read a newspaper. 10,000 if you want to be able to read. Keep going, literate Chinese can read 50,000. link
Yeah, hirigana and katakana are easy to learn as alphabets with phonetic symbols, but as soon as the kanji w/ chinese loaned symbols starts god help you
Hiragana and katakana are the alphabets
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Japanese has fewer than 2000 kanji. That's it. Once you've learned those, you're done.
Chinese has 5000 hanzi if you want to read a newspaper. 10,000 if you want to be able to read. Keep going, literate Chinese can read 50,000.