The Japanese didn't integrate Chinese characters into their writing system; they had no writing system at all until they adopted Chinese characters. Their native character sets (i.e. kana) developed out of Chinese characters by a process of simplification.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
momijizukamori
no subject
Date: 2007-07-06 06:01 pm (UTC)