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I appreciate your call out, I would've had no idea. Is the main idea still correct? I'm curious what technique Japanese speakers use to avoid collisions like t
by aeonik 4y ago
I appreciate your call out, I would've had no idea.
Is the main idea still correct? I'm curious what technique Japanese speakers use to avoid collisions like the one referenced in the article.
- hsn915 4y agoWhat collisions? You mean a kanji composed of two kanjis vs the two kanjis written separately but together? There's no technique per se. It's just the character size. Example: 好 vs 女子
- aeonik 4y agoExactly, thanks for the information!
- fenomas 4y agoNo, TFA was a little vague but there's no collision. The kanji for mackerel 鯖 is a standalone word/idea, whose graphical representation happens to consist of the characters for "blue" and "fish" next to each other. But virtually all kanji are constructed this way, so native readers just see the overall word without considering the parts, similarly to how you'd read the word "notable" without mistaking it for "not able".
- robjan 4y agoChinese characters/Kanji are typically monospaced and characters are written within a box.