Comments on: 6 Reasons Why Kanji is Necessary

By: Knut Holt

Knut Holt — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:02:00 +0000

An in Hangul you write the letters partly over each other so you get a picture for each syllable that resembles chinese charcters.

By: tim

tim — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 13:31:00 +0000

I was going to make pretty much the same points. I’d also add for number 2 – yet people can understand each other when they speak which benefits from no kanji differentiation which shows it is not necessary for phonetic writing either.

By: Jota

Jota — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 18:49:00 +0000

I think it would be interesting to point out that Korean used to have a spelling much resembling that of modern Japanese. Most words where written in Hanja (~ Kanji) with some Hangeul (a native alphabetic script) doing pretty much the same work Hiragana does now for Japanese. However, over the course of the last century, Hanja were dropped for the most part (I think it was a measure to foster literacy). During the transition, several of the problems pointed out in the post did indeed come up. For instance, removing all the Chinese characters made it nearly impossible to work out where a word finished and where the next one started, since Korean didn’t use spaces either. The solution, however, was clear as day: they started using spaces, solving most of those ambiguities. There were also a huge number of homophones which were no longer distinguished in writing. This proved to be really problematic… except it didn’t (at least not for the most part). If you are able to tell the actual meaning of a word when you hear it, you should also be able to get it through while reading it.

By: Neha

Neha — Thu, 30 May 2013 02:55:00 +0000

Rather than thinking of it as frying your brain cells, try to think of it as exercising your brain. That might make it feel a little bit more productive. Gambattene! :)

By: Sasaki

Sasaki — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 06:16:00 +0000

For example..

ははははをみがく
It’s Hiragana only. Can you understand?

母は歯を磨く
I think you can understand this more than first.

By: Lucky Joestar

Lucky Joestar — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 04:10:00 +0000

いま　かんじ　を　つかわず　にほんご　で　かいて　いる。　これ　は　ことば　の　あいだ　が　ある　から　よみやすい。　かな　は　たすけ　を　いらない。　かんじ　は　にほん　に　むよう　だ。