Comments on: 楊 http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2003/10/16/26954/ messy things Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:07:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: steve http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2003/10/16/26954/comment-page-1/#comment-924 steve Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:03:29 +0000 /?p=622#comment-924 Oh cool! I didn\'t know that was your name too.<br /> <br /> Yeah, I know the Japenese kanji are not always exactly the same. I guess at some point in history the Japanese adopted the Chinese characters, and since then both sets have been evolving independently. Oh cool! I didn\’t know that was your name too.

Yeah, I know the Japenese kanji are not always exactly the same. I guess at some point in history the Japanese adopted the Chinese characters, and since then both sets have been evolving independently.

]]> By: Weichung Yang http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2003/10/16/26954/comment-page-1/#comment-918 Weichung Yang Thu, 16 Oct 2003 03:47:31 +0000 /?p=622#comment-918 Oh! What a great word. That\'s also my last name, ha.<br /> <br /> Well, you mentioned about Japanese use traditional Chinese characters, but Japanese also simplify some Chinese characters. For example, they write 總 as 総 (that means \'total\'), 會 as 会(a community), and 國 as 国(\'a country\') and 對 as 対 (to) and so on. :) Oh! What a great word. That\’s also my last name, ha.

Well, you mentioned about Japanese use traditional Chinese characters, but Japanese also simplify some Chinese characters. For example, they write 總 as 総 (that means \’total\’), 會 as 会(a community), and 國 as 国(\’a country\’) and 對 as 対 (to) and so on. :)

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