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Japanese is funny even to Japanese people themselves in here

if you were to stop random Japanese person that is of younger generation and ask them to write you something on Japanese kanji chances are if the thing you asked for isn't commonly used they will have long time trying to remember how it goes or won't even know it in first place

which is why chances are Chinese person that was born in Hong Kong or Taiwan that doesn't know word on Japanese will most likely be able to to make sense of word faster that is written in Japanese kanji by knowing what symbols stand for in traditional Chinese over actual Japanese themselves

some schools in Japan like the one my friend in Tokyo went to even don't bother teaching kanji much to their students except complete basics that are daily overused anything beyond that is left to parents and your family to teach you

so to anyone starting Japanese and beating themselves over how kanji is ridicules and how you have hard time remembering it remember that Japanese people themselves have exactly the same issue as you