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What's the Difference Between On'yomi and Kun'yomi Kanji?

The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language

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Are the Oracles Burning Turtle Shells?

There are a lot of theories about how these characters came to be. One theory is that they found all these characters on bones in tortoise shells. We don't know whether they used them necessarily as messages as well. But they did, they were using symbols with each other to represent concrete things.

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