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Words

472 words shared, borrowed, or simply different between Chinese and Japanese.

Tongwen 同文 · Japanese and Chinese through the characters they share.

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT, JMdict and KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG), CC BY-SA 4.0; Unihan, Unicode License.

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