Not at all. The only similarity is that Japanese borrowed the Chinese characters, called Kanji. Those are the complicated looking ones. Hiragana and Katakana are derived from Kanji, but are just...
Because they are different countries. They originallY had the same,but then stuff happened and the Japanese changed theirs a bit.Same thing about the Koreans.
Japanese and Chinese written language share some characters known as Han Zi. Japanese also uses Kanji that is not used in Chinese. Modern Chinese is read from left to right and top to bottom (like...
There are many differences between the two languages, but it takes time to spot them. Japanese is often written in kanji, which is Chinese calligraphy but is also made up of katakana and hiragana,...