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Can Japanese People Read Chinese? (Kanji)
That Japanese Man Yuta
Yuta, a Japanese YouTuber, explains whether Japanese speakers can read Chinese text. He shows how shared kanji let people guess meanings while the two languages remain completely different.
Cited in threads on writing systems and CJK characters as an entertaining test of how much Japanese people can understand of Chinese.
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