THE VIDEO SHELF · japanese reading chinese
Can Japanese People Read Chinese? (Mandarin, Simplified)
Yuta, a Japanese YouTuber, tests how much simplified Chinese a Japanese person can read, working with a Mandarin speaker. The video shows where shared kanji help and where meanings differ.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN uses it to answer whether Japanese speakers can read Chinese: they can guess a lot, but not reliably.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- That Japanese Man Yuta
- Topic
- japanese reading chinese
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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That Japanese Man Yuta has a great video demonstrating just how much Chinese script do ordinary Japanese folk understand: [VIDEO]
Tade0 on Hacker News · 2020-10
In What Chinese looks, feels and sounds like when you're from Korea or Japan (2009)>there's a bunch of stuff that kind of looks like it would make sense when reading a Chinese word in Japanese, but turns out there's a lot of meanings are very different As someone who knows nothing of the Japanese language beyond the very basics, …
scaladev on Hacker News · 2021-03
In Japanese typography: Kilograms of sinograms
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.