I get that for example たいよう takes much more time than 日, but in a lot of other cases, it’s just more simple and takes less time to write with Hirgana and Katanaka.
Imagine reading an entire novel written exclusively in hiragana.
Kanji allow you to discern one word from another, the purpose of the word and sometimes what the word even is (lots of words are the same in kana). Not only does it give breaks in most cases, but it is about as easy to read as emojis showing <friend> @ <Mcdonalds> or something similar. I can read Japanese faster than English, typically.
You seem to be understanding kanji the wrong way. A word is *not* written in kanji because it’s kanji form takes less time to write it.
Kanji sometimes take slightly longer to write but it makes reading much easier.
You seem to think that languages are somehow constructed by a language committee somewhere. They evolve naturally over time. They don’t **need** to make sense.
Japanese (or basically any human language, for that matter) evolved naturally over thousands of years. None of it has to make sense or be logical or be efficient. In fact, it often doesn’t.
But that doesn’t matter. You have to learn it as it is, not as you want it to be.
>I get that for example たいよう taken much more time than sun Kanji
Wtf does that even mean?
>in a lot of other cases, it’s just more simple and takes less time to write with Hirgana and Katanaka.
It’s almost as quick to type kanji as kana. The upside is that kanji words are shorter, are more information dense, and more visually distinct than kana. Kanji help disambiguate homonyms (which would otherwise rely solely on context). They also help obviate the need for spaces (although personally I’d appreciate spaces).
You are free to write in all hiragana if you want. No one is required to read it though. Japanese writing generally uses kanji – if you want read it you have to learn kanji.
Taiyou is not written with 日．
But really you are bad at writing kanji so you think it takes time. Kanji written by natives who write kanji takes less time than the equivalent English words.
It’s way quicker to write 分 than minutes tho, even if you suck at kanji.
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It’s much faster to read kanji than kana.
Imagine reading an entire novel written exclusively in hiragana.
Kanji allow you to discern one word from another, the purpose of the word and sometimes what the word even is (lots of words are the same in kana). Not only does it give breaks in most cases, but it is about as easy to read as emojis showing <friend> @ <Mcdonalds> or something similar. I can read Japanese faster than English, typically.
You seem to be understanding kanji the wrong way. A word is *not* written in kanji because it’s kanji form takes less time to write it.
Kanji sometimes take slightly longer to write but it makes reading much easier.
You seem to think that languages are somehow constructed by a language committee somewhere. They evolve naturally over time. They don’t **need** to make sense.
Japanese (or basically any human language, for that matter) evolved naturally over thousands of years. None of it has to make sense or be logical or be efficient. In fact, it often doesn’t.
But that doesn’t matter. You have to learn it as it is, not as you want it to be.
>I get that for example たいよう taken much more time than sun Kanji
Wtf does that even mean?
>in a lot of other cases, it’s just more simple and takes less time to write with Hirgana and Katanaka.
It’s almost as quick to type kanji as kana. The upside is that kanji words are shorter, are more information dense, and more visually distinct than kana. Kanji help disambiguate homonyms (which would otherwise rely solely on context). They also help obviate the need for spaces (although personally I’d appreciate spaces).
You are free to write in all hiragana if you want. No one is required to read it though. Japanese writing generally uses kanji – if you want read it you have to learn kanji.
Taiyou is not written with 日．
But really you are bad at writing kanji so you think it takes time. Kanji written by natives who write kanji takes less time than the equivalent English words.
It’s way quicker to write 分 than minutes tho, even if you suck at kanji.