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In a Japanese dictionary, you can find homonym clusters as long as something like 12 words.

Native speakers get confused in conversations and have to refer to kanji regarding which word they mean. Except they don't write down the kanji; they think of a very common word which has that kanji and say things like, "the shō syllable in my word is the same (kanji) as in shōrai".

The vast majority of the Japanese vocabulary consists of word roots made from the combination of two kanji. The language-making itself is not separable from kanji.

Japanese is only spoken language like others basically only for small children and idiots. Literate, grown-up Japanese is a written language first.

parent kazinator 1 month ago

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