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Takuo Matsuzawa
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Urushi Art Producer 🇯🇵 Kintsugi Urushi Fountain Pen 🖊 Matsuzawa Urushi Workshop X joboji & japanjoboji matsuzawakobo.com/ www.patreon.com/matsuzawa All my English posts are translated using ChatGPT
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Kanji are very interesting. It's wonderful to infer meaning from radicals. Since cultural practices have changed significantly since ancient China when kanji were created, there are occasionally origins that are hard to believe.

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Yes! An example I know of for cultural change over time is 姦しい I don’t know if that’s widely used, as a novice I say うるさい 😄 We wouldn’t do that today! en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%A7%...

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Takuo Matsuzawa
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Urushi Art Producer 🇯🇵 Kintsugi Urushi Fountain Pen 🖊 Matsuzawa Urushi Workshop X joboji & japanjoboji matsuzawakobo.com/ www.patreon.com/matsuzawa All my English posts are translated using ChatGPT
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