RE: How to tell Japanese from Chinese.

Jungshik Shin wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote: > > > Doesn't this kanji > > > [...] > > > usually only appear in Chinese? > > It seems not. Altavista brings up 721,100 web pages in > Japanese [...] > On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote: > > ... it also found 13,780 Korean

RE: How to tell Japanese from Chinese.

Title: RE: How to tell Japanese from Chinese. At 2:01 PM +0200 6/8/01, Marco Cimarosti wrote: ǟÇÒÇ« wrote: > Doesn't this kanji "îV" (U+4E4B) [snip] > usually only appear in Chinese? No. It is used to write 'no' (possessive) in names such as "Takagi Tora

RE: How to tell Japanese from Chinese.

On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote: > ªÆªóªÉ wrote: > > Doesn't this kanji > > > > | > >--- > > / > > _/ > > _/ > >/ | > > > > NOT to be confused with hiragana "e" (oy vey), > > usually only appear in Chinese? > > It seems not. Altavista brings up

Re: How to tell Japanese from Chinese.

On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, [ISO-2022-JP] $B$F$s$I$&$j$e$&$8(B wrote: > My very simple rule of thumb for telling Japanese from Chinese is to > look for kana. If I see even one kana, I am looking at Japanese, > right? (Warning: A few kanji resemble katakana.) So if I see so much > as a hiragana "to", it

RE: How to tell Japanese from Chinese.

てんど wrote: > > Doesn't this kanji > > > > | > >--- > > / > > _/ > > _/ > >/ | > > > > NOT to be confused with hiragana "e" (oy vey), > > usually only appear in Chinese? O, by the way, "之" (U+4E4B) is one of the few Japanese words I that I know: "no", the

RE: How to tell Japanese from Chinese.

てんど wrote: > Doesn't this kanji > > | >--- > / > _/ > _/ >/ | > > NOT to be confused with hiragana "e" (oy vey), > usually only appear in Chinese? It seems not. Altavista brings up 721,100 web pages in Japanese containing "之" (U+4E4B): http://www