I just started learning kanji and I’m curious if there’s any sort of pattern or correlation to be found between how complex a kanji looks and how much information it conveys. So far the ones I’ve learned look simple and represent simple things like 一ニ三, 大, etc.
Side question I have is when you’re reading and a kanji appears that’s very complex do you ever need to stop and glance over it twice? I expect it to be hard to quickly interpret complex and similar looking kanji at the same reading rate as katakana or hiragana.
by markpigeault
