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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz
Uh, those actually do reflect the meaning.
You measure population by counting the number of mouths of people there are. In your second example, the kanji mean "to come" and "Japan."
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Right, except it only makes sense if you make up an example or try and justify it. No one would ever come to the conclusion that 人口 would mean population if you told them that the first Kanji means person and the second means Mouth. Never.