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pmiller Account terminated Groupie Canada Joined 5676 days ago 99 posts - 104 votes Speaks: English*	Message 1 of 3 05 June 2009 at 3:15am \| IP Logged
	I'm wondering if Japanese kanji are more similar to traditional or simplified hanzi? I know Japanese has some simplified characters (the one for country is an example - "koku/kuni/kuo"), but overall it's more like traditional, right? So if I hope to eventually learn both Japanese and Chinese, would it make more sense to learn traditional hanzi? Also, I read somewhere that the PRC government is about to reform simplified characters (again), restoring some traditional forms to reduce ambiguity. Anyone know the status of this latest reform, or if a wholesale switch back to traditional characters is a possibility? 1 person has voted this message useful
OneEye Diglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6852 days ago 518 posts - 784 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, Taiwanese, German, French	Message 2 of 3 05 June 2009 at 6:32am \| IP Logged
	Kanji are more similar to traditional Chinese characters. There have been some simplifications, but not a lot. Some are the same as the simplifications made in China, and some are different. I seriously doubt China will ever go back to traditional characters completely unless the government changes. Maybe not even then. I'm guessing the recently announced reform will probably take a while, and probably won't be very significant. They would have to reprint a lot of stuff otherwise. 1 person has voted this message useful
Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5768 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin	Message 3 of 3 05 June 2009 at 1:01pm \| IP Logged
	Funny are the ones that have one simplified variant in kanji and one in hanzi. :D 1 person has voted this message useful

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