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Twist: When you see a pair of complex-looking Chinese character strings, but if one of them looks somewhat "simpler", then chances are that it's Chinese and the

• cturner 11y ago
  Taiwan hasn't followed the simplification. Could you be looking at dual printed classical/simplified Chinese?
• thaumasiotes 11y ago
  来 and 学, from the original example, are both simplified characters (the traditionals being 來 and 學). I was a little bemused to see them in an example of Japanese text, but it turns out they are the common Japanese characters as well. Japanese has its own set of simplifications ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjitai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjitai ), often overlapping with the Maoist simplifications. In a different pattern, mainland China simplified 龍 to 龙 while Japan simplified it to 竜. Despite being a "simplified" form, 竜 is actually the oldest of those three characters. >> For those who don't know Japanese, only following my rule, can you identify the Japanese characters in the sentence above? I would technically meet that requirement, but knowledge of Chinese makes the question pretty easy regardless of knowing Japanese. ;)
  • Nadya 11y ago
    >I would technically meet that requirement, but knowledge of Chinese makes the question pretty easy regardless of knowing Japanese. ;) Found the loophole in my requirements! Haha :) Had a good laugh when you pointed that out, thank you. Showed a quirk in my reasoning. You also did a wonderful job explaining the simplified/traditional characters and the overlap between them and I learned a bit of trivia!