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Japanese adopted the "traditional" Chinese characters and their system evolved from that point. Both Chinese and Japanese characters underwent a simplification
by FeteCommuniste 2y ago
Japanese adopted the "traditional" Chinese characters and their system evolved from that point. Both Chinese and Japanese characters underwent a simplification process from those original traditional forms, but the simplications aren't always the same. Japanese also has hiragana and katakana, which are syllabic and phonetic and often used to represent foreign names. So the short answer is that no, you can't simply use the Chinese unicode block, whether traditional or simplified, to represent Japanese.
Korean uses Hangul, which is an alphabet and entirely unrelated to Chinese or Japanese.
- hnick 2y agoI'm not Korean but my understanding is they do use the Chinese-derived script occasionally, for emphasis or to solve ambiguity, among other things. So some users will need access to that script too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanja https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanja
- kbolino 2y agoMy very limited understanding is that Hanja use is extremely rare today, only ever cropping up in niches of academia. Basically everyone will exclusively use Hangul and will disambiguate with synonyms, idioms, etc. instead of Hanja.
- hnick 2y agoYes from what I heard it would be very few users, definitely not the general public. Maybe academia, signage, marketing, historical/legal use, etc. It might be enough to simply plug the gap with occasional images instead of fonts. But CJK fonts often do apparently include Hanja.