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shinobu21 07-04-2006
eh mais ça c chinois c po japonais
azn 10-07-2006
THIS IS MANDARIN NOT JAPANESE!
yourHAness 11-01-2006
yeah, this is chinese not japanese...and those symbols aren't letters...they're actual words like...capital V..that symbol means "you", capital W means "year", lower case h is west....
xobbygrlxo 02-07-2007
O it wont work good
i thought it was japanese! lol its cuz i nver studied it...0_o anyways.. it looks cool♥
lulamie 04-05-2007
it is cool i guess...but why don't you put the right numbers?...i mean...there is a symbol for each number...i am studting mandarin so..thank you. i'll take this font...see ya
arries 05-15-2007
It can be Japanese depending on how you use it, I studied Japanese, and I see several characters and know the saying and meaning in Japanese. Perhaps the person that created this file knows Japanese, so they created it for that purpose, dont't know. The only difference is that the words or pronunciation are different from Chinese. Anyway, after reading these comments, I won't be using it. Why not just use the font that comes with your Mac OS, you can get the same effect and use hiragana, katagana as well as kanji characters with different styles.
Reikou 05-25-2007
this is Japanese "kanji" which means continent letters, namely refering to china. They can be used almost interchangebly with japanese with a few pronounciation changes(i.e. "fist"='chuen' in chinese and 'ken' in japanese)
Reikou 05-25-2007
"actual 'Japanese' languages include Katakana and Hiragana"
Leela-Turanga 10-08-2007
EN JAPONAIS, CA MARCHE PAS SYLLABES!!!!! PI YA PAS LE L!
YO, ALLUMEZ!
KiraHoshi 11-18-2007
This IS japanese...most japanese and chinese caracters are the same...I know two of these...school and "to be born"...
Dunedain 12-16-2007
This is NOT Japanese.

It's easy to spot because (some of) these are so-called simplified characters, only used in China.

Japanese use so-called traditionnal Chinese characters, albeit sometimes with simplifications of their own.
yamikea 04-08-2008
Ca c'est pas du japonais !!
bing01 07-16-2008
i sure they are not japanese,nor traditionnal Chinese
they are Chinese simplified
because i am chinese
hofodomo 08-03-2008
It would be nice if there were multiple sets of this font so more characters can be used.

And what they said above: this is most definitely NOT Japanese, due to the presence of simplified characters.
Sparanoid 08-13-2008
These letters are Chinese
Madame Evil 09-07-2008
This is really stupid. This is actually Chinese but the Japanese copied from The chinese. So actually this is actually Chinese. HEHE!
Cutieaznangel5 03-12-2009
Why is this typeface named Japanese when it is actual Chinese characters? It feels kinda weird .. it feels more like a mistake than a purposely done concept. And this typeface will make the typographer look bad as if he or her didn't do his/ her research well enough to distinguish the difference between the two forms of language.
kagoe 03-30-2009
I hate liars...
Raph95 05-16-2009
This is not japanese. These are Chinese characters. The only characters with are japanese are | which is "e", and # which is (almost) "ka". But this is not japanese, for sure. Those are kanji symbols.
Lion Hearted 07-06-2009
We already know this isn't Japanese, don't need to keep on mentioning it. =/
jeneshisugakuto 09-28-2009
It isn't originally Japanese. It is indeed Chinese, however these ARE used in Japanese.The ones I see on display I recognise to be used in Japanese, for example the one on the end which is repeated means 'heavens'. Kanji as these Chinese characters are called were first introduced when Japanese had no written form, so therefore Kanji was before Hiragana and, expectedly, Katakana. While katakana and hiragana are syllabic, kanji represent a word. Kanji was limited after WWII only to jouyou - commonly used ideographs, and Jinmeiyou - name kanji (reserved for the use in the names of the Japanese people otherwise it would be a hassle to change them).
CHINApeople 11-13-2010
The whole world knows that this is Chinese.This is derived from ancient Chinese culture.
CHINApeople 11-13-2010
這是100﹪中文,NOT JAPANESE!
lonpo 04-19-2011
chinese
roschelleC 09-04-2011
Yes this is Chinese...I am studying it at the moment and it seemed very similar
natoyi 10-25-2011
i'm asian, and it is really SUCKS
yukikonoda 12-27-2011
This is not real japanese...haha
TruType7 03-13-2012
OMG kid!! this is friggin Chinese not japanese! you can tell by how it doesn't have the curved writing. Whoever named this, name this to Mandarin Chinese, 白痴
Catstyle 05-17-2012
Actually, it's Chinese but not Japanese.
Although it looks like Japanese, but there're still some differences between them.(Coz I am a Chinese who is studying Japanese~)
For example:"时" is a Chinese charater and we read it"shi", but in Japanese way it spell as"時" and its pronunciation is "toki"
You can see the font uses "时", so I say this is Chinese~
(Many foreigners don't know well about Asian cultural, just as we don't know well about Western cultural ^_^)
Q 12-24-2012
After using ChapMap it has a WSIfonts TAG and does NOT! support ALL the Chinese characters it only has 90 characters and assigns 1 character per Char except Caps.

THIS SHOULD BE DELETED! do NOT DOWNLOAD!

HELP REPORT THIS USELESS FONT...


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