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Words with redundant Kanji 2020/9/27 00:15
Hi,

Recently I came across a couple of words which -when looking at the separate Kanji meaning - they seem to be 'redundant '.

For example丘陵 Kani meaning hill - hill
or
河川 Kanji meaning river - river.

I guess there is a logic behind but which one?

Thank you for reading and may be explaining.
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Re: Words with redundant Kanji 2020/10/4 04:50
The first part of this article gives a good theory about it

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2014/11/17/language/double-kanji-avo...

The second drifts off to explaining the multiple uses of 子 which isn’t relevant to your question.
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Re: Words with redundant Kanji 2020/10/4 07:36
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Re: Words with redundant Kanji 2020/10/4 16:25
@ LikeBike Thank you so much. This is quite interesting, isn't it?

@ Kamahen Many thanks for that.
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