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How is the use of Chinese Characters in Japanese different than the use in the Chinese languages?
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The use of Chinese characters in Japanese, known as Kanji, is different from Chinese in several ways:

- In Japanese, Chinese characters are used alongside two other scripts - Hiragana and Katakana - while in Chinese only Chinese characters are used. Hiragana and Katakana are used for grammatical elements and words of Japanese origin respectively.

- The set of Chinese characters used in Japanese, known as Kanji, is a subset of the characters used in Chinese. Not all Chinese characters are used in Japanese. Many characters have been simplified or modified in Japanese.

- Chinese characters in Japanese have different pronunciations and meanings. The same character will often be pronounced differently in Japanese and Chinese and may have different meanings or connotations. The characters have been adapted to the Japanese language.

- In Japanese, Chinese characters are combined with Hiragana and used in ways that do not occur in Chinese. There are conventions for incorporating the scripts that are specific to Japanese.

- In terms of usage, Chinese characters are more fundamental to the Chinese writing system while in Japanese they are used alongside other scripts. Fluency in Chinese requires knowledge of significantly more characters than in Japanese.

So in summary, while Chinese and Japanese use the same set of characters historically, the characters have been adapted differently in the two languages in terms of pronunciation, meanings, and usage. The writing systems are not the same, though closely related.