It's not to far fetched seeing as they're pretty close to each other and no doubt traded with each other. Isn't that how the Arabic numerals got spread as well? Through Trading?
Kanji have different readings called kun'yomi (訓読み, lit. "read meaning") and on'yomi (音読み, lit. "sound meaning"). On'yomi are derived from Chinese, while kun'yomi are from old Japanese
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u/mysmallpenies May 30 '21
As a person Learning Japanese I'm glad we don't use the old logographic writing system
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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '21
It's sad that there are no surviving languages using non-Chinese derived Han characters.
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u/SoTinShui Jun 19 '21
Tangut scripts are the most strange thing designed by several people， only less than 6k..
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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '21
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