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They are not perceived as the same by most people in those cultures. There are tons of characters that to someone who's eyes are not used to spotting the differ
by greggman 11y ago
They are not perceived as the same by most people in those cultures. There are tons of characters that to someone who's eyes are not used to spotting the difference would not notice they are actually different. A single dot, or touch vs pass through or curved at the tip vs not make all the difference
入 vs 人
玉 vs 王
口 vs ロ <- my font might make those indisguishable out of context
千 vs 干 vs 于
of course in English we have 0 vs O and l vs 1
- fryguy 11y agoIn English, even within the same letter there are variations on how it can look. For instance, the letter a can look different based on serif/sans-serif, double-story/single-story, or even cursive and italic. There isn't that much variation in fonts for Asian characters, is there?
- Nadya 11y agoThere are also plenty of variations in calligraphy that make some store signs nearly impossible to read (for me). There are differences but many of them come from computers not being able to properly render pictographs. Compare 人 with: http://i.imgur.com/ZpFMQoU.png http://i.imgur.com/ZpFMQoU.png for one of the most obvious differences. For Japanese there is: 篆書、隷書、楷書、行書、草書. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerical_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerical_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-cursive_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-cursive_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive_script_(East_Asia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive_script_(East_Asia) Can see more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_calligraphy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_calligraphy