I've been learning Chinese for 9.5 years and Japanese for 3.5 years. The characters are CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) characters, but have no meaning when read as a phrase in Chinese or Japanese. Individual characters hold meaning in Chinese and Japanese; the fourth character means "ash" and the last "joy". CJK characters ultimately originate from Chinese, and all the characters probably have meanings, at least in the past. In short, the bun
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