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Mostly yes. Japanese people can vaguely infer the meaning of mandarin, given the simplified characters, without prior exposure to the language before: https:/

• bdowling 6y ago
  I found it interesting that Japanese people did better with traditional Chinese characters than with simplified Chinese. This makes sense because while some Japanese characters are simplified forms of traditional Chinese characters, they are often simplified very differently than the simplified Chinese forms. Japanese people might encounter the traditional characters in old books, but are unlikely to learn the simplified Chinese form unless they specifically studied Chinese.