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  2. Taito (kanji) - Wikipedia

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    Variant 1: daito or otodo Variant 2: taito Taito, daito, or otodo (𱁬/) is a kokuji (kanji character invented in Japan) written with 84 strokes, and thus the most graphically complex CJK character—collectively referring to Chinese characters and derivatives used in the written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.

  3. List of Chinese–Japanese false friends - Wikipedia

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    Japanese kanji and Chinese logographic characters have been simplified through World War II era simplifications in kanji and China, respectively. There are numerous national standard lists of characters, pronunciations, and forms distinctly defined by Japanese kanji and Chinese writing systems. [1] In the Japanese language, common characters ...

  4. Kanbun - Wikipedia

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    Kanbun, literally "Chinese writing," refers to a genre of techniques for making Chinese texts read like Japanese, or for writing in a way imitative of Chinese. For a Japanese, neither of these tasks could be accomplished easily because of the two languages' different structures. As I have mentioned, Chinese is an isolating language.

  5. List of CJK fonts - Wikipedia

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    Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong, using education standard: List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters, Chinese: 常用字字形表) The following localization table shortens Simplified Chinese to SC and Traditional Chinese to TC. Japanese: kanji, hiragana and katakana; Korean: Hangul, hanja, etc. Vietnamese: for the Nôm script ...

  6. East Asian typography - Wikipedia

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    East Asian typography is the application of typography to the writing systems used for the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese languages. Scripts represented in East Asian typography include Chinese characters , kana , and hangul .

  7. Chinese script styles - Wikipedia

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    Edomoji comprises a large family of calligraphic styles native to Japan, named for the Edo period in Japanese history when they were created. Examples include 'sumo letters' (sumōmoji) used to write sumo wrestling posters, kanteiryū used for kabuki, and higemoji. These styles are typically not taught in Japanese calligraphy schools.

  8. Japanese writing system - Wikipedia

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    The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalized Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis.

  9. CJK characters - Wikipedia

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    Translation of "That old man is 72 years old" in Vietnamese, Cantonese, Mandarin (in simplified and traditional characters), Japanese, and Korean.. In internationalization, CJK characters is a collective term for graphemes used in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, which each include Chinese characters.