So what is the actual story behind Chinese kanji symbols and how come they are credited to Japan today? Well, it all started out when Chinese articles started coming into Japan as imports with Han character inscriptions on them.

An example of such an article includes the gold seal that was handed over by the then emperor of the Han dynasty to the Japanese. How and when the Japanese began to achieve command over the use of the Chinese characters remains a mystery.

What possibly may have happened was that the Chinese immigrants in Japan must have been the first people to be using the Kanji script. It would have been absolutely impossible for the Japanese themselves to understand it and learn the script on their own.

The political ties between China and Japan goes back a long way and such a boding required a volume of paperwork which was required to go to and fro from one country to the other. In Japan they set up a council called Fuhito who were entrusted with the duty to learn Chinese language so that they could read the documents. This perhaps made way for the Chinese Kanji script to be accepted developed in Japan.

At the time when the Chinese Kanji script was introduced in Japan, the country lacked any writing system of its own. Starting out with the Chinese system the country gradually gave form to its own writing system which involved making use of Chinese text with some reformation according to Japanese grammar.

What the Japanese did was that they began to write Japanese words with Chinese characters. This was an advancement made in Japanese writing style and was named as Kana syllables. The Japanese additionally developed the script and introduced phonetics to the Chinese symbols they were using whereas in China the symbols did not have any kind of phonetic.

Kanji script though accepted more or less as Japanese is used more frequently in China than in Japan. People also believe that the Kanji script of both the countries look almost the same. In reality the Japanese and Chinese Kanji script has lot of difference as Chinese Kanji symbols are shaped differently.

The dissimilarity between the Chinese and Japanese script also extends into the way that they are read. As mentioned above the Chinese would treat the kanji characters as entire symbols whereas the Japanese would read them according to their phonetic value.

Chinese symbol meanings are highly profound and important to in Chinese culture. If you want to read more about Chinese name symbols click on the hyperlinks.

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