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The books cited in my earlier reply, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8353518 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8353518 by authors who know quite a lot
by tokenadult 12y ago
The books cited in my earlier reply,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8353518 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8353518
by authors who know quite a lot about Japanese, dispute this claim. Most Chinese characters used in Japanese are borrowed written forms used for the loanwords in Sino-Japanese vocabulary.