• De_Narm@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Oh boy, it’s gonna be rough when he learns that you need another ~2.000 kanji to be fluent. Although only ~100 for JLPT 5.

    For context, there are only 46 hiragana and 46 katakana.

      • wieson@feddit.de
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        9 months ago

        We also use two different alphabets. Lower case and upper case. Upper case is basically Latin script optimised for stone carving, lower case was developed for ink writing (I think in the Carolingian era). Now we use both at the same time without batting an eye.

        Add cursive in the mix and we also have 78 letters instead of 26.