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>>1564215

> My question is why do they insist that kanji look like anything other than a bunch of lines?
No idea, it's all pretty abstract. You rarely can see any real-life stuff in other than maybe basic 200 primitive characters.

>If you take the kanji, and then RADICALLY REARRANGE IT, it looks like the word it means!
LOL who told you that, pure BS

also related http://www.hellodamage.com/kanjidicks/main.htm#sectionone

and in that link check "2: DISPELLING THE 2 MOST PERNICIOUS MYTHS ABOUT KANJI!"