Hi, you all.
I’m starting up on Japanese and decorated the sounds from Hiragana, but I realized now I need to get to know some basics on Kanji.
I had already heard of the terms On-Yomi and Kun-Yomi, basically China already had Kanjis to express ideas and the Japanese imported those signs. Japanese, however had words for those ideas that wouldn’t match the original chinese pronunciation on kanji, as the kanji for flower can be read as “Ka” if you are going for the On-Yomi (chinese) or “Hana” if you go for Kun-Yomi.
My question is: if my goal is to learn japanese, what’s the reason for knowing how do chinese speak each kanji?
by BrunoJ–