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The teaching of "kanji" characters to western adults uses a few tricks of it's own.. First of all - no matter how complicated the character - it is only made up of a few dozen component elements. They are not pictographs (but the component elements did evolve from them). The components can be used in a near infinite number of characters. The average Japanese adult knows more than the 2100 and to master Chinese, you need double that..
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