What is the difference between Chinese, Korean and Japanese writing?
China’s neighboring countries of Japan, Korea, Taiwan and other Southeast Asian countries have all made the Chinese calligraphic system part of their own respective cultures. The Chinese writing system is still used in Korean and Japan. That is why much of the artwork created by Green Dragon Arts is just as appropriate in Korean or Japanese as it is in Chinese. Kanji in Japanese and Hanja in Korean are both names for essentially the same system of writing as is used in China. Both the Japanese and Koreans still use the Chinese system of writing for their more formal or traditional documents. At Green Dragon Arts we make no distinctions between the Chinese writing system, Kanji and Hanja. Japan and Korea have since developed their own unique system of writing. For Japan it is called Katakana and hiragana and for Korea it is called Hangul. Green Dragon Arts does not used these systems of writing.
