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Originally Posted by MMM
No, Japanese people cannot read Chinese. They may be able to recognize characters, but the way Chinese characters are used is very different than Japanese.
Japanese adopted Chinese characters in the same way English adopted the Roman alphabet. That doesn't mean we are able to read Greek, though.
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yeah one who knows Kanji in the Japanese language might be able to make out the meaning of Chinese sentences, but it would be very hard because the Kanjis in Chinese language is much more complicated and the variations is much wider and bigger in numbers.
and actually, there is such subject where they read Chinese literature/scriptures, and not many student would took that class because it requires an advanced knowledge of Kanji.