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Why are there so many words which can be written with multiple different kanji?

I'm almost certain that in the vast majority of these cases, the different kanji reflect absolutely no difference in meaning and that the less commonly used kanji is only considered an acceptable spelling because a large amount of illiterate people at some point in history were all spelling the word wrong in the same way.

It would be like in English if the next iteration of the Oxford Dictionary decided that "ocassion" and "occassion" were acceptable spellings of "occasion" just because a large amount of illiterate retards use those spellings by mistake.

Why can't Japanese dictionary makers just decide "alright retards, here's how it spelt, if you're using any other kanji you're doing it wrong".

Yes, I know there are some cases like 聞く and 聴く where the kanji do reflect different senses of the word, but I'm convinced that those are rare exceptions.

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