hanzi

And note that the characters are called hanzi or kanji (literally Chinese/Han characters), not oriental characters.

However, it also seems some youths in Asia are forgetting the actual writing of some kanji/hanzi due the convenience of computers[1].

What's an estimate of the equivalent of 140 Hanzi characters in, say, English?

I'm not defending hanzi/kanji, but I think it helps a lot that speech is usually in person.

I have tried to read Remember the Hanzi a bit, but it feels like I am reading a dictionary.

I used Heisig's Remembering the Hanzi to learn the characters and then would practice them in a space repetition system.

Well, a Chinese Hanzi character essentially corresponds to one Mandarin morpheme.

This is factually incorrect for the Chinese readings of kanji/hanja/hanzi.

Can't Chinese last name consist of a single Hanzi character?

I don't know Cantonese but I'd ask if you chose your example to maximize the different Hanzi used in each language also?

I think we're agreeing back and forth on the qualities of hanzi vs kanji.

It is not that much different than reading the hanzi that I do know.

I see hanzi/kanji, katakana, and zhuyin (but not hiragana) as all part of the same "alphabet" used to build up hanzi recursively.

Katakata, like zhuyin, is "hanzi/kanji written small", just as hiragana is "hanzi written quickly".

Most words are written with the Kanji, which are very similar to Chinese Hanzi.

Does Twitter still offer 140 characters in Hanzi?

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