I have noticed that the kanji 世 (the world) looks a lot like the kana せ (se) and it’s even pronounced as せ (or せい). Is there a connection there? Is the kana derived from this kanji, or is it just a coincidence?
[This character](https://imgur.com/JLlc7oD) from Detective Conan (Case Closed) is named メアリー 世良. (世良 is the surname). Bonus internet points if you can figure out how it’s read without looking it up. Yes, both kanji led to a hiragana each.
Have you read about how the Japanese language was created? It existed as a spoken language before a written one, and as if stealing over 10,000 characters and half the sounds from the Chinese wasn’t overkill enough for the simple non-tonal phonetic sounds of Japanese, they also created simplified scripts based on those kanji yet again, and it’s still a complete disaster of a language. Don’t even get me started on “kou”
Kana was derived from kanji
Z A W A R U D O
I’m still learning Kanji even tho I haven’t grasp on how Japanese forms sentences which might be a bad idea, is 世 also means “earth” or “ji” if its by itself, or am I wrong?
かカ九 all fairly similar in appearance and sound
Nobody has ever noticed that before. Congrats.
Hiragana derives from the cursive style of kanji.
Katakata on the other hand takes a small part of regular kanji font.
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Kana are derived from kanji!
Yea, there is also タ(ta) and 夕(yu-evening). There is a lot of overlap between kana and kanji.
夕タ 工エ 二ニ 厶ム 彐ヨ 匕ヒ 卜ト 力カ 口ロ
I think that’s all that look (almost) identical for katakana
Gotta post that beautiful video [“Origin of Hiragana”](https://youtu.be/5F3KLM_ZWcQ) 🥰
[This character](https://imgur.com/JLlc7oD) from Detective Conan (Case Closed) is named メアリー 世良. (世良 is the surname). Bonus internet points if you can figure out how it’s read without looking it up. Yes, both kanji led to a hiragana each.
[Worth reading to get a deeper grasp of the source and development of the Japanese written language]( https://factsanddetails.com/japan/cat18/sub113/item2774.html)
[Chart of Kanji to Kana characters](https://i.imgur.com/Wk0FYLJ.jpg)
Have you read about how the Japanese language was created? It existed as a spoken language before a written one, and as if stealing over 10,000 characters and half the sounds from the Chinese wasn’t overkill enough for the simple non-tonal phonetic sounds of Japanese, they also created simplified scripts based on those kanji yet again, and it’s still a complete disaster of a language. Don’t even get me started on “kou”
Kana was derived from kanji
Z A W A R U D O
I’m still learning Kanji even tho I haven’t grasp on how Japanese forms sentences which might be a bad idea, is 世 also means “earth” or “ji” if its by itself, or am I wrong?
かカ九 all fairly similar in appearance and sound
Nobody has ever noticed that before. Congrats.
Hiragana derives from the cursive style of kanji.
Katakata on the other hand takes a small part of regular kanji font.
め looks very similar to cursive of 女 for example.