In ancient times, the Japanese nation only had its own national language, but not its own writing. Later, China culture was introduced to Japan, and the Japanese began to record it in Chinese.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Chinese characters were introduced into Japan. In the Tang Dynasty, I invented a pen name that was popular among women. The official language is classical Chinese, so modern Japanese is greatly influenced by ancient Chinese.
After the middle of the 5th century, the Japanese created a Japanese writing method with Chinese characters as the symbol between tables. After the eighth century, this method of using Chinese characters as notation symbols was widely adopted.
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? Chinese characters are widely used in Japanese. There are tens of thousands of Chinese characters in Japanese, but only a few thousand are commonly used. 1946 10 10 In October, the Japanese government published the List of Chinese Characters to be Used, which included 1850 Chinese characters. 198 1, 10 released the List of Commonly Used Chinese Characters, which contains 1946 Chinese characters. In textbooks and official documents, only the Chinese characters listed in the List of Commonly Used Chinese Characters are generally used.
Imitate the pronunciation of Chinese characters, and pronounce them according to the pronunciation of this Chinese character when it was introduced into Japan from China. According to the different times and sources of Chinese characters, they can be roughly divided into five tones, Chinese tones and Tang tones. But the pronunciation of these Chinese characters is different from that of the same Chinese character in modern Chinese. The vocabulary of "phonetic reading" is mostly Chinese vocabulary.
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