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Why do you think so?
You referring to hanzi as kanji is more or less the same as someone referring to a chinese person as a japanese person.
I am a Japanese person. I don’t see your point.
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> Refereing to chinese character as Kanji is inaccurate. "Kanji" is often translated into English as "Chinese character", so the two terms tend to be used interchangeably even when someone is referring to text written in Japanese.
Thanks. I didnt know that. So would people call chinese texts also as kanji?
In Japanese there is no distinction between kanji and hanzi, they are the same thing, and written equally - 漢字.
In English, it would be most appropriate to call Chinese language characters hanzi, and Japanese language characters kanji, but this is an English distinction, not one in the native tongues that use these characters.
As the author of these drawings is Japanese, the correct term would be “kanji”, but the word “kanji” literally means “Chinese character”.