Recently, in order to welcome the Chinese Lunar Year of the Tiger, the sea lion in the Hakkeijima Ocean Park in Yokohama City, Japan, held a brush and wrote the Chinese character "Yin" with a splash of ink to welcome the Year of the Chinese Tiger.
Xiaobian saw such a clear "Yin" word, and couldn't help but sigh that the little sea lion was really too smart!
When it comes to Japan's emphasis on Kanji, it is obvious to all that Japan regards the selection of kanji every year as an important event. On December 14, Japan's 2022 Kanji of the Year was elected, which is the fourth time that Kaneji has been selected as the Kanji of the Year. Many people who hear the word "gold" will think that it is the Japanese people's yearning for money and wealth in the new year. But it was alleged that the word was chosen mainly because it reflected "Japan's gold medal boom at the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games."
In Japan, kanji and calligraphy can be said to be compulsory and compulsory from childhood to adulthood. Although Japan has made great changes in writing, it is impossible to eliminate Chinese characters, because their script is based on Chinese characters and based on Chinese characters.
Due to its deep love of Japanese kanji, Japan has established its own Kanji Museum, the second kanji museum in the world, where there is a "50,000-character Kanji Tower" that includes all the Kanji that can be mastered in Japan.
Because it is aimed at primary and secondary school students, they classify the 50,000 Chinese characters according to color, font, and size, print the Chinese characters that children must know into the largest blue characters, print the commonly used Chinese characters into slightly smaller yellow characters, and the black small characters are relatively rare Chinese characters.
These 50,000 Chinese characters are derived from authoritative Japanese dictionaries and dictionaries, and most of the Chinese characters in the Kanji Tower are included in the "Hanhe Dictionary" compiled by the Japanese scholar Tsurahashi in 1959, with a word count of 49,964. It was followed by Xu Zhongshu's 1990 Hanyu Da Zidian, which contained 54,678 words. In 1994, Leng Yulong and others compiled the "Chinese Character Sea", which received as many as 85,000 words. However, most of these dictionaries are actually many characters that are no longer used, that is, various variant characters before the unification of Chinese characters, as well as many newly created characters by modern people, such as the "national characters" created by the Japanese.
Japan not only attaches importance to Chinese characters, in daily life is inseparable, basically everywhere can see Chinese characters, according to the provisions of the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan's current street names, road traffic signs, is the use of Japanese Kanji, Roman characters, English common signs marked. Therefore, even if you have not studied Japanese and seen Kanji on the streets of Japan, you can basically understand more than half of the meaning.
However, it should be noted that although some words look the same, the meaning will be different from our domestic meaning. For example, "hand paper" is understood as toilet paper used in daily life, but in Japanese it means letter.
There is also "niang", which in Japanese does not mean mother, but rather daughter or girl. For example, the common "ginseng" in Japanese supermarkets is not a domestic ginseng that nourishes yin and yang, but refers to carrots."
What other words do you know that are completely different from Japan and China? The above is all the content introduced by Xiaobian for everyone.