| Object-naming tasks employ pictures, and kanji characters are ideographic and sometimes pictorial in nature. |
| If the name is written in kanji, or picture characters, the chances go down. |
| Then ten years of school for learning the first thousand Chinese kanji ideographs, with thousands more to go. |
| All kanji have a set number of strokes and an order in which to write them, and woe betide you if you get either wrong. |
| Japanese children with reading disabilities often have disproportionately more difficulty reading and writing kanji than kana. |
| Buddhist temple coins here in Japan are inscribed with kana syllables, not kanji ideograms. |
