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Hi everybody!
The question just came up. How many years ago did the Japanese people borrow kanji from China?
I know that the word 'borrow' is misleading. If I remember correctly, all letters in Japan in the beginning were written in Chinese -- Japanese people could not write in their own language, so they wrote in Chinese. Then, gradually, they started using Kanji to write their own language.
But how many years ago was that?
The question just came up. How many years ago did the Japanese people borrow kanji from China?
I know that the word 'borrow' is misleading. If I remember correctly, all letters in Japan in the beginning were written in Chinese -- Japanese people could not write in their own language, so they wrote in Chinese. Then, gradually, they started using Kanji to write their own language.
But how many years ago was that?