Chinese languages

It means to report to the inland revenue your monetary comings and goings. Bo means report, sui, means tax.

They are thus considering themselves as separate socially in some ways from their neighbours. Whether this is due to language or customs is anyone's guess. From analysis into the inscriptions, folks over the past 100 or so years have figured out that elements of Chinese today are found in the langua...

As for reading Classical or literary Chinese in Japanese, it is possible, and usually called kanbun (han wen). When reading poetry, they append the lines of text with small kana characters, and numbers which relate to the order the characters in the line are read.