Cool!

The character for trời (eng: sky), which is basically a <天> on top of a <上>, looks very similar to the Jurchen character for "sky"; the Jurchen character has a <丄> on the bottom instead of <上>, although both mean the same thing. The Jurchen character is read as abka.

I didn't know that. I love Jurchen.

There's no way to express how much this rocks!

I know right?

Me, too. I wonder if they are any invented characters shared by both Jurchen & Chữ Nôm. I'll have to look into it.

I was wondering the same thing.

Good luck.

There probably are some similar invented characters but I doubt the number would be particularly high. Vietnamese is linguistically unrelated to the Jurchen language and unlike the Jurchen characters, the Vietnamese Chữ Nôm characters pretty much follow the Chinese conventions of character creation and many Chữ Nôm characters are easily mistaken to be Chinese in origin.

Here's a song I translated called Tan Biến (To Disappear):




If Vietnamese still used Chữ Nôm as its official writing system, then it'd probably surpass Chinese in terms of overall difficulty to learn.

Why would it be more difficult?

Yes why?

I thought Chinese was the king in making your brain explode while trying to learn it.