Mao-feng Tsai, Dean of the School of Foreign Language and Literature at Soochow University, points out that even though many kanji have a different meaning than they do in Chinese, there are even more whose meaning a Chinese person can understand at once or guess. According to his experience, most Chinese people can learn to read Japanese books, newspapers, and magazines after about a year and a half of applied study.
東吳大學外語學院院長蔡茂豐指出，儘管日文中有不少與中文字義完全相反的漢字；但明顯可懂或可猜出意思的漢字更多，依照他的經驗，一般人只要用心學個一年半左右，就可閱讀日文資料了。