We were once in Japan, my wife (mainland Chinese) was able to read about 1 in 4 characters without any practice. (Admittedly, it's possible some were wrong, bu

We were once in Japan, my wife (mainland Chinese) was able to read about 1 in 4 characters without any practice. (Admittedly, it's possible some were wrong, but if so they were uncommon as everything she identified as being what we wanted turned out to be right.)