Is it true that nearly 70% of the vocabulary in modern Chinese comes from Japan?

Japan is the first country in Asia to open to the outside world. During the Meiji period, a large number of Japanese scholars studied in Europe and created many modern Chinese based on western vocabulary. It can be said that Chinese character culture has been well integrated through Japanese and western civilizations. For example, the words "democracy", "freedom", "science", "evolution", "philosophy", "revolution" and "* * and" ... are all written by the Japanese people on the basis of Chinese characters combined with advanced western ideas, which can be accepted by the public.

In fact, during the Qing dynasty, domestic scholars also created some new words, but they were not successful. Because that's because China's literati like to show off their literary talent, the more abstruse their writing is, the better their literary talent is, so the problem of popularization is not considered. At that time, words made in China, such as "telephone", could hardly be regarded as telephone for a person who had not studied English, while the Japanese word "telephone" was more popular and easy to understand.

There is also "Eye of the Sky", which is not bad on the surface, but actually means evolution. Obviously, the word "evolution" in Japanese is more in line with the public.

It can be seen that although Chinese characters are foreign culture to Japan, they have been used for hundreds of years and are already a part of national culture. The advantages of simplicity, appropriateness, artistic conception and reconstruction ability of Chinese characters have been fully demonstrated in Japan.

When Sun Yat-sen failed to fight against the Qing Dynasty and went into exile in Japan, he found a large number of Japanese neologisms and was very interested. The first thing that changed the fate of the country was the word "revolution".