As well as Kanji China ( Hanzi ), Japan also use the same writing system so-called Kanji.
Japanese Kanji is not much different with Chinese Hanzi, because they jointly use pictograph as their writing system.
By knowing the reasons below you're gonna know why do most Japanese People tend to forget Kanji.
Usually Japanese people will be introduced by Kanji Characters since they are in Primary School.
And even as yet learn Kanji until they are in University.
Japanese Children will first be learning colloquial Kanji Characters. Until a certain level.
Here are some colloquial Japanese Kanji list they learned at school.
Kanji has multiple meanings and multiple pronunciations such as Onyomi and Kunyomi.
If you've been wondering about Kanji Translations usually it depends on Kanji itself because each characters has its own meanings.
How many Kanji are there ? Kanji has a number of hundreds to millions.
But, Japanese Government had set around 2000 Characters to understand certain articles in the newspaper.
Kanji such as 人, 火, 田 in a row mean human, fire, and rice field because indeed, its actual shapes almost similar to the actual meanings, and it depends on Kanji Meaning.
And usually kanji is used on an object as a symbol, this usually so-called Kanji Symbol.
Thus, that type of writing system they used to write out/ simplify vocabularies because Japanese is a syllabic language, and constantly called as Kanji Alphabet.
Questions about Kanji
How do you read Japanese ?
We read Japanese by using 3 writing systems in Japanese Language, Those are Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji.
How do Japanese Kanji Work ?
Usually Kanji is combined by hiragana when using original Japanese vocabularies and sometimes only followed 1 or 2 Kanji which is combined with Hiragana.
How many Alphabets are in Japanese Language ?
Japanese has 3 different writing systems.
This writing systems are Hiragana written for preposition or Kanji's companion,Katakana parts of Kanji ( Radical ) to write loanwords especially from English, and Kanji a pictograph writimg system to write/ simplify Japanese vocabularies.
What is the use of Kanji ?
Like I said, Kanji is used to simplify vocabularies in Japanese Language and for nouns sometimes use the Onyomi pronunciation.
The reasons why do Japanese People still have difficulty on reading Kanji.
They use memorization Technic
Since Primary School to University Japanese People already accustomed to memorize each characters in Japanese Language.
So that, most of them will tend to forget Kanji which is considered not really important in daily life.
Technology Influences
Japan itself is a country with an Advanced Technologies Producer which then become popular in the entire world.
Especially the use of Smartphone which usually be used as long distance communication for each people.
Because that Technology Influences. Japanese rarely writes their writing system directly and use technology as a replacement.
Because of this point Japanese are gonna be smarter on reading than writing.
Summary
From those reasons has been understood that Japanese tend to forget what they've remembered and remember what they've forgot.
Hence, for those whom gonna learn Japanese are recommended to not really think about the difficulties of Kanji.
Because however you aren't alone, Japanese People themselves have difficulties on that.
Even from its original country, all Chinese people are not really mastering and good at their own writing system.
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