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Syntetyc In reply to Mooroflife [2019-04-22 08:55:18 +0000 UTC]

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Mooroflife In reply to Syntetyc [2019-04-22 19:56:52 +0000 UTC]

but it's a Chinese character, the Japanese writing system borrowed a lot of characters from the Chinese writing system. I often see people online say such and such characters are "kanji" and "Japanese," but being Chinese I'm just like, "what do you mean, it's just a Chinese character"

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Syntetyc In reply to Mooroflife [2019-04-23 08:28:12 +0000 UTC]

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Mooroflife In reply to Syntetyc [2019-04-23 17:46:57 +0000 UTC]

yes the origin is Chinese, and it is Chinese, but it feels weird to say it's Japanese, kind of like Americans speak "English", they wouldn't say that they speak "American"

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Syntetyc In reply to Mooroflife [2019-04-23 20:17:22 +0000 UTC]

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Mooroflife In reply to Syntetyc [2019-04-23 21:58:15 +0000 UTC]

Even if the whole American continent speak English, it would still be English, not American, wouldn't it? Because it's the language of the Anglo Saxons. And we don't call it Chinese kanji, there's no such thing, 汉字 is spelled as "han zi" in China, we don't call it kanji. Also Latin is a dead language, Chinese is so not dead.

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Syntetyc In reply to Mooroflife [2019-04-24 07:37:23 +0000 UTC]

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Mooroflife In reply to Syntetyc [2019-04-24 08:10:32 +0000 UTC]

yeah I guess I'm just protesting the fact that people don't recognize the origin.

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felix330 In reply to Mooroflife [2019-04-21 20:11:34 +0000 UTC]

Kanji (漢字) literally translates to "chinese character", so I don't see the problem.

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Mooroflife In reply to felix330 [2019-04-22 00:25:54 +0000 UTC]

ok I see, it's just that people often see them as Japanese

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