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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I agree. Also as someone who knows Japanese to some extent, the real 肉 and 骨 is memorizing all the exceptions where the neat kanji rules don’t work, like when the pronunciation doesn’t match the look of the kanji.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

As the old idiom goes: the devil is in the details. And there's a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot of devilry in 汉字.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oo, oo, meat and potatoes?