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10 questions linked to/from Distinguishing certain characters in handwriting and print (Similar-looking Kana and Kanji)
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口ロ Those are supposed to be different characters. How can you tell? [duplicate]
The first is supposed to be the kanji for mouth, "くち" and the sencond is supposed to be katakana. When I typed them in google translate, the sizes were different so I could differentiate them that way,...
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Is there any difference between writing the katakana カ and the kanji 力? [duplicate]
The two characters I'm talking about here is the katakana "ka" (カ) and the kanji 力 as in [入力]{にゅうりょく}.
Just by looking at the two characters in digital text form, they seem to be written in the same ...
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Difference between katakana so and n
I am having high confusion between katakana n ン and katakana so ソ. They look very similar even with the different stroke directions, they look very similar. Could anyone suggest how to differentiate ...
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Why is there a difference between the hand drawn 道 and the pc font one?
I was studying this kanji and looked at the strokes order to figure out how to write it, only to realize the difference between the pc font one and the diagram. Why is the 3 look-alike only on hand ...
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What's the deal with/origin of the character 曰?
I'm talking about the 曰 from 曰【いわ】く, not the common 日【ひ】 we all know and love.
Why would they "make" two characters that look (for all intents and purposes) exactly the same?
How do you really ...
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Can counter words also be nouns?
According to people I've asked, and this page, if I pay 20 Australian dollars for my meal, it seems I say ni ju doru (20-ドル), and that ni ju-en doru (20-えん-ドル) would be ungrammatical - "dollar" acts ...
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Legibility of handakuten and dakuten in small font sizes
I occasionally come across text with a small font size where I can tell that there's either an handakuten ゚ or a dakuten ゙ in a kana character, but I need to zoom in to tell which one it is.
Does ...
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Is there a standard way to clearly differentiate similar handwritten (kana) characters?
In English, you often see people who write certain letters or numbers with an extra stroke to differentiate them from similar characters, for example people will write a z with a horizontal stroke to ...
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Are many hiragana and katakana found in kanji?
I've noticed a few kanji that appear identical to a kana. 二 is the only example I can remember, where it represents both the kanji ni and the katakana ni, although I'm sure I've seen others. Are there ...
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How to distinguish between handwritten ソ and ン? [duplicate]
I often get confused in distinguishing between the handwritten ソ and ン. Is there any hint to do so easily?
I know the stroke order for both in writing so what I want to know is how to distinguish ...
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