Why the writing of Koreans different from Japanese and Chinese?
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Both Japanese and Korean were derived from Chinese; however, over time, the Korean and Japanese languages have evolved so that although both obviously borrow from Chinese, there are distinct differences.  \n\nYou can find information about the languages here:\n\nhttp://www.omniglot.com/writing/chinese.htm\nhttp://www.omniglot.com/writing/korean.htm\nhttp://www.omniglot.com/writing/japanese.htm
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For chinese one symbol means something and they go together to mean stuff.. Since you know chinese im sure you know what i mean. I dont really know chinese, but i am korean, born in korea and lived there for about 10 years. Korean is silimar to english in a way because you can write down words that will sound like the word if read. If someone in english said to spell a word like Minjeong (its my korean name) you can spell it. In korean u can spell it too just by the way it is sounded. I believe in chinese you cant. The characters there are vowels and consonents and they go together to create the sound! its just that sometimes they go together in a certain way to make a word. It is really hard to describe! but i dont think korean is similar to chinese. The only similarity is that some Korean words are rooted from Chinese. like when you say korea in korean its "hangook" the "gook part is actually chinese word meaning country
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Briefly, it is about the same kind of difference as between chinese and korean...\nBoth use letters, and are understood by computers. But the syntax, lexic and vocabularies are different.\nHelps?\n\nBTW, one being "oops", and the other one not is really bull... Create a struct in "C", shove some pointers to functions into it, and enjoy your very own "object".\nNow, create another struct, with the previous one as the first field - and you have just discovered inheritance. Cast a pointer to the second one into a pointer to the first - and that is your polymorphism.\n\nAnother myth is that C++ is a "superset of C" or that you can compile a C program with a C++ compiler, or that C is "C++ without classes". This is not true. They look somewhat similar to a human eye, but formally are totally different laguages.\nYou could, probably, come up with some fairly simple C program, that can be compiled with C++, just like some Spanish words (and even sentenses) are also valid in French, but in general that is not true.\nFunction pointers are not compatible with void*, or with each other. Integers are not compatible with pointers, and are not assumed by default, you can't skip a type declaration etc, etc.\n\nAnd finally, no, "C" is not faster than "C++" on any sane system.
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I know a lot of sites in Korean.\n\nAre you Korean?
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I thought Kanji refers to the Japanese language - although the characters that they use are Chinese characters. I have no problem with people using them - but its a bit funny if they don't understand what it means or represents. Imagine if someone gets a tattoo of some character that looks cool except that it means something like "doofus". That would be pretty funny.\n\nFrom a language developmental sense, almost all languages are thought to have been derived from ancient Sanskrit. I think the only four that were unique and independent are Chinese, Mayan, Sumerian and ancient Egyptian (not the Arabic that is spoken there today). Out of those, only Chinese is still in use. Japanese Kanji is really just Chinese characters. It is used by the Japanese in addition to their phonetic system.
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no, spoken, they are completely different. \nhowever, if you can read chinese characters, you may be able to decipher some words (written) in either language but only vaguely,,,,,
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There are keyboards with Japnese printed on keys. Also one can type if you change your font to some japnease or chinese. But I don't no either of the language so I can't type the words and tell you.
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You asked "is Japanese easy (to learn)?" I have learned Japanese for more than two years and I can tell you it is not easy at all. It isn't like English--You can study all the grammar at the first place then the problem is only about vocabulary. Japanese grammar system is very complecated.  English native speakers may not understand its honorifics! However, comparatively speaking, Japanese language is somewhat easier for the Chinese or Korean.
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The Japanese writing system is used in Japan - Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana. Normal Japanese sentences are written with kanji as the base, and hiragana tends to be used for verb endings and particles. Katakana is used both as italics and for foreign words.
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you mean East Asian languages ? I've studied Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. I would say, Chinese is the most difficult to learn whereas Korean would be the easiest among those three.\n\nkorean language is the easiest cuz it uses the Hangul script which is easy to learn and write compared with the Chinese characters, though Chinese characters are used sparingly in the Korean newspapers. Furthermore, Korean language is very similar to Japanese language grammatically.\n\nPersonally, I find it so easy to learn Korean because I had studied Japanese for a few years prior to learning Korean. \nSo I would advise those who have studied Japanese language before, to learn Korean as well. Trust me, it's really a breeze.
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♡Modern Japanese uses three main "scripts":♡\nKanji, characters of Chinese origin,\n☆ There are several ten thousands of characters, at least 50,000of which 2000 to 3000 are required to understand newspapers. A set of 1945 characters has been officially declared as the "kanji for everyday use". \nhttp://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2046.html\nHiragana, a syllabary, and \nKatakana, a syllabary. \n☆Hiragana and katakana each consist of 46 signs which originally were kanji but were strongly simplified over the centuries. When looking at a Japanese text, one can clearly distinguish the two kinds of signs: the complicated kanji and the simpler kana signs.\nhttp://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2047.html\n☆It is also possible to write Japanese in Roman letters. In Japanese, this is called rōmaji. The Japanese rarely use this system to write their own language, except for abbreviations (often of a technical nature) where it is becoming increasingly common (e.g., CD and DVD).\nHope this helps! (*^o^*)I live in Japan and after nine years I am still trying to learn all the kanji characters I can.♡
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Japanese partly uses Chinese characters (which in Japanese are called Kanji) and partly uses two syllabaries called Katakana and Hiragana.\n\nOther languages of Chinese origin other than Mandarin Chinese also use Chinese characters (e.g. Cantonese, Hakka).  These are often all called "Chinese" but in fact their spoken forms are actually quite different and often not mutually intelligable.\n\nVietnamese and Korean used to use Chinese characters until quite recently, but do not any more.  Vietnamese now has a latin-based alphabet and Korean now just uses a Korean-specific syllabary (they are *not* ideograms - they directly reflect the sounds of the language).\n\nAlso (to correct something written above) Thai has its own alphabet - that's not ideograms either.\n\nAs far as I know, no other ideograms other than Chinese characters are used in languages spoken today (and strictly speaking, they're not all "ideograms" either!)
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No, in terms of script and language no.\n\nThe Japanese Writing Language in whole consists of 3 different sets of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.  Though Hiragana and Katakana are basically the same phonetic letters, they are spelled differently in their sets to distinguish original words from borrowed words.\n\nHiragana is the curved phonetic script that is used for most of the language for japanese-domestic words like you (anata) or me (watashi) (note: "anata" and "watashi" are romanji, romanized-letter style of dictating japanese, not as great as usage of the hira/kata style). \n\nKatakana is the straight phonetic script that is used for "borrowed words" from other countries (mostly USA) and sounded onomatopeicly, like hotel would be "ho-te-ru" and the US would be "A-Me-Ri-Ka".\n\nKanji are ideograph characters that are borrowed from Chinese characters (in the Simplified Chinese set, not Traditional). They stand to be used as substitutes for words in japanese that are objects or ideas for the most part. (The symbol for Tokyo 東京 is really the kanji for "Too-Ky-Yoo".) However, Hiragana and Katakana can be used in place of Kanji with no misunderstanding. Kanji is more substitute fillers.\n\nSidebar: Hirugana are the little scripts that are beside Kanji words in educational books. This helps the student familiarize themselves with the sounding of the word and memorization of the Kanji.\n\n\n\nBy Contrast, Chinese Characters, or Hanzi, is made of of nothing but tens of thousands of ideograph characters. Originally, the characters were pictures that evolved into pictographs and eventually into ideographs, for the meaning.  A meaning or work could be as simple as one character (car=車, or che) or as long as the meaning goes (WMD = 大規模毀滅性武器 daguimo huimiexing wu qi). Hanzi is all about memorizing, to know the words. But the characters do not give you an idea of what the word sounds like. Thats where Pinyin and Zhuyin come in.\n\n\nOriginally, to understand what the character sounds is, one would use the Zhuyin phonetic system. Like the hiragana phonetic system (where all script letters represent sounds like ka, no, ru), the Zhuyin (or BoPoMoFo) system is script letters that represent sounds that are used to make up the combined sound of a letter. (mom would be ㄇㄚㄇㄚˋ, or MAMa)\nEarly school children were originally taught this system first to familiarize themselves with the sounds, and towards high school just memorize the sounds that go with the character (to the point of innate skills). Taiwan and certain countries still embrace this method limitedly, because alot use Pinyin instead.\n\nPinyin is a different school of chinese phonetics. It uses roman letters instead of Zhuyin script to garner the sounds (similar to Romanji for japanese). This was developed so more of the West would be able to learn chinese without trying to use the Zhuyin system. (like Mom would be Mama, sorta).  Mainland China embraces the Pinyin system (as well as simplified text, where Kanji most resembles).\n\n\nIn summary, Japanese and Chinese do not share the same script, but originally, like most SouthEast Asian countries (*cough* Korea) Japan borrowed a large portion of the characters from China and heavily evolved it into the hiragana, katakana, and kanji sets of today. Chinese still stems into two schools of writing, with the Simplified Hanzi, and the Traditional Hanzi.
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well... technically, with the alphabet, the equivalents would be...\na: 아\nm: ㅁ\np: ㅍ\n\nhowever!!!  when spelling in the korean alphabet, it works by syllable clusters, not individual letters.  because of this, they don't use initials.
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That's just their culture.\nHiragana is for native japanese words.\nkatakana is for foreign borrowed words\nand Kanji is for chinese borrowed words.
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What language is your name in? Sorry if I'm wrong, but if it's Chinese then write it out in Chinese characters. Then take it to a Japanese person and ask how they pronounce it. The Japanese use 'kanji' or Chinese characters extensively, including many of the same symbols in their names, just with a Japanese pronunciation.
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For word processing, you take advantage of the fact that Chinese characters are built out of a finite set of components (called radicals and phonetics) and you sort of build each character out of these, one at a time.  Other systems have you type in a phonetic equivalent.  The software then prompts you with a list of up to 16 or so possible characters that is pronounced that way.  Chinese has a lot of homophones, and does not have a phonetic character set the way Japanese does.\n\nBefore the invention of the word processor, Chinese had typewriters.  They were 2 or 3 times the size of an old IBM Selectric.  They had a giant tray of metal squares (chops), each of which had a single character reverse-engraved on it.  The typist had to find the character they wanted, lower a claw-like grabber onto the square, then bring it to platen of the typewriter and strike the paper with it, then put the square back in the hole where it had been and move on to the next character.\n\n11 characters a miniute was considered speedy. Until PC's with a lot of memory became affordable (early 1990s), there was no such thing as desktop publishing, and things like investment newsletters were written up in longhand, then taken to a " typing shop" to be typed up.