Billy Ting wrote:

> understand what I'm talking about.  Since Japanese originated from Chinese
> some of the characters are the same in the Japanese language (hence people
> like me may be able to read some of the words).  Are the Chinese characters
> in the Japanese language in simplified style (jieng tee) or traditional
> style (fang tee)?  I've seen some of the simplified style Chinese
> characters on the page, does this mean the Japanese are still acquiring
> Chinese characters into their language even today?  Unfortunately, I think
> I've confused myself, anybody who may have been able to understand this,
> and then there are people who have no idea what the hell I'm talking about.

  This is of particular interest to me... but yah.  I've noticed subtle
differences between characters.  But in most cases you can tell what the
character is because they are so similar.  (Unlike the standard simplication of
the word for 'door' in Chinese... d'oh!  If I didn't know about it I wouldn't
know what the hell it was.. 8)  )

  You'll need to turn on S-JIS and Big5 here alternatively...

  What you said about aquiring simplified characters today... I would say it
pertains directly to this character:  The character for "country".. (in both
languages)

S-JIS:  
Big5: 郁

  I've seen the S-JIS character used in Chinese for the same meaning.. so.. I
guess that's what you mean, right?

  So your question is.. is this character and other characters we may not know
about... since they are the simplified version of an original Chinese
character, are they drawn from the set of Chinese simplified characters?

  Is that right?

  I think I've also seen the same thing with: (Character for "gas".. or "air",
both languages)

S-JIS:  C
Big5:  

  In this case the S-JIS character is sometimes used in Chinese to represent
the Big5 character...(I think)


  By the way.. I've seen someone from the Mainland write the "country"
character once as:
   _
  |X|
   -

  essentially a box with an 'X' in it.. 8)  ugh.. it was ugly.. 8)



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