re: #421 mmmirele

As much as I think learning kanji is a pain in the ass, the number of homonyms for some morae (syllables are the English equivalent) are so incredible that it’s just *necessary*.

It always surprises people to hear that Japanese with 2000 characters is much harder to read than Chinese with 8000+.

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Japanese: nin, jin, hito, ri, kiyo, sane, ji, tami, to, ne, hiko, hitoshi, futo, fumi, muto, me, …
Mandarin: rén