I have a challenge, can you distinguish which character set/s belongs to Japanese & Mandarin?

There are of course differences between Kanji / Hanzi but the “difficult” part is knowing which language is which simply by glancing (unless you know either 日本語 or 中文 that is).

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In contrast, do you know any words that are near identical when written down between two “alphabetical” languages based on their spelling?

  • eurodyne@piefed.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I can, only because I have a passing familiarity with both. I could also spot Korean characters if I saw them. although I cannot read Japanese or Mandarin or Korean, there is a definite stylistic difference between the characters and how they are represented.

    I can typically tell with Western languages as well. But, again, only because I have a passing familiarity with many of them.