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[-] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago

It's the same thing though. Basically there are traditional characters, used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapour, and others, and Japan simplified the characters in 1945, then China simplified theirs, but in another way.

A better comparison would be the hiragana and katakana being derived from kanji.

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