There are many false friendships between the Chinese and Japanese languages. These are words that look or sound similar to those in another language but have a significantly different meaning. The majority of these false friends result from the use of Chinese traditional characters in the Japanese script.
See main article: article and Sino-Japanese vocabulary.
Chinese characters are said to have been invented by Cangjie, one of the bureaucrats under the Yellow Thearch. Cangjie coined symbols known as "zi (字) following a study of the landscape, animals, and galaxy in the sky. "Zì" (字) is the first Chinese character created, and Cangjie related it to a mythical story of the day these characters were created