The recent popularity of the Japanese Kanji tattoos has skipped over the fact that the Kanji writing style was actually imported from China. The tattooed "characters" that can be found on many an arm or shoulder are not letters, as Western body art lovers think of them.
The Kanji writing style is actually composed of borrowed Chinese ideograms that express total concepts or thoughts, rather than individual letters, as most Western people think of them. Kanji is the oldest and most complicated of the three writing systems and is used most often to write foreign words, including scientific terms and foreign names.
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