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熊 is Kanji of the year (www.nippon.com)
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Apparently the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation decides one of these every year.

This year, 熊 (kuma) was selected, meaning bear. For whatever reason, Japan has had a bunch of bear issues lately.

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[–] 2 points 8 months ago

The flip side though is that once you get good work kanji, you can also be very expressive with them in ways not really possible with a phonetic script like the Latin alphabet :p

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