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by Amorphous Blob on July 24th, 2009

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My wife can't distinguish the Korean alphabet characters from Chinese characters or from the Japanese alphabets. I find this shocking. Can you?

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  • by Jim in a Nautilus COAT on July 24th, 2009

    Jim in a Nautilus COAT

    The Korean Han-gul is quite distinct from traditional Chinese Han characters. However, Han characters are occasionally used in writing Korean, and are used in Japanese Kanji as well. So your wife has it right.

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  • by Anonymous on July 24th, 2009

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    I find it to be pretty easy, I'm not Asian either...though I'm sure many other people can do this as well

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  • by barsoom_redux on July 24th, 2009

    barsoom_redux

    Yep. Although I will admit I have more of a problem with Kanji and Chinese.

    Hope this helps.

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  • by Occams Electric Razor on July 24th, 2009

    Occams Electric Razor

    yes..well mostly because I know how to read, write and speak korean but I think most would be able to see that korean has a certain style and form that is different than kanji (which is both chinese and japanese)

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  • by anonymous on July 24th, 2009

    anonymous

    Simple answer, yes.

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  • by overeducated on July 24th, 2009

    overeducated

    It's not shocking. Because I'm a curious person, I made a point of learning to at least recognize most of the world's alphabets and pictograph writing systems fairly early on.
    But I understand that there are others who have never done so. I still can't cook a chicken. ++++

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  • by Misty on November 3rd, 2011

    Misty

    Some Chinese characters are used in Korean and in Japanse. My father said it's because the Koreans used to use Chinese characters before they developed a system of their own, the Japanese too. I'm not too sure on this though, but I do know that Chinese characters are used in all three languages.

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