There's something to that argument in Japanese. According to [1] Japanese has 643 distinct syllables, while English has about 6949. There's a lot more context

There's something to that argument in Japanese. According to [1] Japanese has 643 distinct syllables, while English has about 6949. There's a lot more context in speech and video games and long-form writing than in random writing and signs. It's virtually impossible to convey a meaning to a product or company name without using kanji. For example, let's take a company named "Bandai". Now look up "ban" (https://jisho.org/search/ban https://jisho.org/search/ban) and look up "dai" (https://jisho.org/search/dai https://jisho.org/search/dai) and "da" (https://jisho.org/search/da https://jisho.org/search/da) and "i" (https://jisho.org/search/i https://jisho.org/search/i), each of which has 3-5 meanings, and tell me which combination of possible words is the company's name derived from? There's literally no way to tell. [1] https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/a/36909 https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/a/36909