Katie Lawler & Assignment #1

1) I chose the symbol for beard, Xū. It's basically the reverse of the katakana　ミ. Many jokes are made about Chinese not being able to grow facial hair.

2) http://www.learn-japanese-kanji-hiragana-katakana.com/JapaneseKanji_ChineseKanji.htm

• Japanese use less kanji characters than Chinese, due to the advent of kana.
• There are two ways to read a kanji, onyomi and kunyomi. The onyomi is the original Chinese reading assimilated into Japanese and kunyomi is a strictly Japanese reading.
• Kanji tend to have multiple meanings depending on context kanji, altering base meaning.