What good are kanji?
Language Log 2025-10-21
Summary:
Why Do Japanese Still Use Kanji? Complicated Writing System… That Japanese Man Yuta was featured in "'Think' in Japanese" (10/13/25) a few days ago, where he raised some serious questions about kanji usage. One that neither he nor we answered / confronted satisfactorily / adequately is that different "spellings" of homophones (e.g., おもう 思う / 想う) are written […]