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Originally Posted by Malenka
Now my questions:
- Why this Kanji: 樹 When 木 would also seems "tree" ? Or are i'm wrong?
- It's depend on what if you write it in hiragana or Kanji? Are some words more write in hiragana, or it's just your own choise which to use?
- Can you also write the Kanji like this:
林
佳
樹
And if yes, on what do it depend how you write it?
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Why? Why not? You can name your kid pretty much anything. 林 and 樹 don't mean the same thing, either. 林 means 'the woods', which is like a small-size forest and 樹 means an individual tree.
Basically, what words to write in what writing system is set in stone. You don't have a choice. The only people who have a 'choice' are kids who haven't learned any or many kanji. 6-year-old kids usually write everything including their names all in Hiragana. You start replacing the Hiragana with kanji as you learn the kanji. This usually takes a kid a few years.
Yes, you can write Japanese vertically, too. As a matter of fact, vertical IS the original way. Even today, Newspapers, magazines, books, etc. are written vertically, with the exception of some science-related books that have lots of mathematical formulas. So you either write everything vertically or everything horizontally in a given composition. You cannot mix vertical and horizontal.