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roboter5123 t1_j3ilem6 wrote

Reply to comment by s8018572 in A Back-alley Encounter by Meowmarlade

Why not both? Aren't japanese All about this Kind of pun?

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Qubin t1_j3jb106 wrote

Well kanji is pretty much just borrowed chinese characters. "Cat" in mandarin is also 猫 (pronounced "mao"). This depiction just clearly isn't Japanese.

(I've also talked with this artist before, and most of their work contains either mandarin or ancient Chinese seal script)

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kennjen t1_j3skiqh wrote

"Kan-ji" quite literally means "Chinese Characters"

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Qubin t1_j3tuytk wrote

Yep! Though the simplified kanji are sometimes different than simplified mandarin characters. I don't know much about these differences, as I've never spoken/written Japanese, but I do know they exist.

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