This brings up an interesting question. Since 日本 means japan in both chinese and japanese, does this mean the post should be tagged with both chinese text and japanese text?

snpthecat said:
This brings up an interesting question. Since 日本 means japan in both chinese and japanese, does this mean the post should be tagged with both chinese text and japanese text?

Even in Japanese, the word "Kanji" means "Chinese characters". And this is a weird rabbithole since the name "Japan" (they call their own country "Nihon") comes from linguistic drift from the Portuguese hearing the name of the country from the Chinese.

That said, the 日 character is, from what I've learned so far, usually has the bottommost horizontal line on the character further down so it doesn't get misinterpreted as a lazily drawn 月, which means moon. It only looks that way in typed fonts, like how the way the letter 'a' is written in real life as opposed to the fancy head antenna it gets. Just my take on it here.

data said:
Even in Japanese, the word "Kanji" means "Chinese characters". And this is a weird rabbithole since the name "Japan" (they call their own country "Nihon") comes from linguistic drift from the Portuguese hearing the name of the country from the Chinese.

That said, the 日 character is, from what I've learned so far, usually has the bottommost horizontal line on the character further down so it doesn't get misinterpreted as a lazily drawn 月, which means moon. It only looks that way in typed fonts, like how the way the letter 'a' is written in real life as opposed to the fancy head antenna it gets. Just my take on it here.

Funny how I've learned more about linguistics from.e621 comment sections more than I have from anywhere else

smuglytherat said:
Funny how I've learned more about linguistics from.e621 comment sections more than I have from anywhere else

I don't acknowledge enough how browsing this site is actually an intellectually enriching experience.
At least some of the time, and mostly only if you read comments, forums, blips and the wiki. In other words, if you 'dig deep'. but it is

When the bro went out and got a kanji tattoo and it actually means what he says it means. (I know two bros that wish they'd gotten temporary tattoos instead XD)