Can I have kanji for dinner? Separating Japanese characters from Indian rice porridge
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According to linguists, there are over 40,000 kanji characters in the Japanese writing system, none of which are edible. Yet, a surprisingly common search query asks, “Can I have kanji for dinner?”. This widespread and understandable confusion comes from a cross-cultural homonym, contrasting Japanese script with a comforting South Indian rice porridge dish that shares the same name.
