[maui_hawaii]

Believe whatever you want. Its wrong though.

The Japanese didn't have characters until they got them from China via Buddist texts.

You don't even know what Xang Xing, Xing Sheng, Zhuan Zhu, Hui Yi, or Zhi Shi actually means do you?

I also have NO idea where you got your 94% number from.

So tell us where you learned your Chinese.

[exmachinan]

I am Japanese and I guarantee my knowledge of Classical Chinese is greater than yours.

[exmachinan]

The Japanese didn't have characters until they got them from China via Buddist texts.

The simplified character for "guo" (koku/goku) was first simplified by the Japanese! After WWII in 1946, the Japanese simplified its characters too, called the Shinjitai. The PRC in the 1950s then copied the Japanese simplification. The reason the Japanese used the "jade" character was that it rhymed in Japanese. Unfortunately it doesn't rhyme in Mandarin, because Mandarin is such a bastardized form of Chinese. In ancient Chinese the two characters would rhyme too.