How were the languages of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean formed? Chinese looks more like Korean.?

I assume you're talking about the written languages.

The Chinese written language began about 3,200 years ago beginning as pictograms -- that is, as pictures of the thing or the idea that they were supposed to represent. They weren't wholly different from Egyptian Hieroglyphs in that respect. Over time, pictograms were combined to covey more complex meanings, however as the language evolved (as languages do), many characters changed meaning slowly, particularly as the characters became more complex.

Japanese has four writing systems -- kanji, katakana, hiragana, and romanji. Romanji is simply the Roman (same as English) alphabet. Kanji is directly taken from Chinese, and in fact, many Japanese kanji characters mean the same thing in Japanese as they do in Chinese (although they are usually pronounced much differently).

Katakana and hiragana are both syllabaries -- this means that each character represents a syllable instead of a single consonent or vowel. Both are used generally for words where there are no kanji characters, such as names, certain place names, foreign words, etc. Both of them are based on Chinese writing -- simple radicals that at one point had the same pronunciation. Katakana is more straight and angular, which hiragana was based on Chinese "cursive" or stylised writing. Interesting, hiragana was historically preferred by women, katakana by (relatively) educated men, and kanji by the educated elite.

Hangul, the Korean writing system, was created over 500 years ago in order to be different from Chinese. Because there are so many Chinese characters (over 14,000), literacy in Chinese is very difficult. The Hangul writing system uses individual letters to represent sounds -- these are usually grouped together in two or three, and very rarely, four, but each shape still represents a single sound. In addition, similar sounds are represented by similar-looking letters in order to make learning easier. In short, however, Hangul was created in order to increase literacy among Koreans, and not just for the educated elite.

Hope this helps.

Japanese uses a symplified and modified version of the Chinese characters. Korean is completely different and based on phonetics. Japanese is a language isolate not related to Chinese or Korean.

What a joke. Everything was modeled on Chinese. Or at least that's what some people say. Here's what I know:

Chinese has been in use for 3500 years. Since the Han dynasty the written language [now called Traditional Chinese/ "fanti zi" to differentiate it from Simplified Chinese/ "jianti zi"] has been unified and became standard and this standard has been in use since then [between 206 BC and AD 220]. That's why Chinese people call the language "Hanyu" ["Han language": it was during this dynasty that this language was created (actually it's been created a long time before this, but this was the second time the Chinese language was actually standardized, the first time was during the Qin dynasty, somewhere between 221BC and 207BC) for use by the people] or "hanzi"[characters/ words of the Han (dynasty/people)].

Then it wasn't until the Communist took over [1956] that there's another standard: Simplified Chinese/ Jianti zi.

Korean:
Korean hangul structure seem to be modeled on the square script of the Chinese style of kaishu script.
hanja is Chinese script, which the Korean gave a native Korean and a Sino-Korean pronunciation to each character.


Japanese
hiragana is based on Chinese caoshu or grass script [cursive undecipherable script].
katakana is based on kaishu squarish script [standard script].
kanji is Chinese characters or Japanese made characters using existing Chinese characters. the "kan" in kanji means the same as han in hanzi in Chinese and the same as han in hanja in Korean. kan, & han in kanji, hanja and hanzi all mean "Chinese". ji, ja & zi all mean "character / words"

Japanese kanji uses mostly archaic Chinese vocabulary terms when using more than two characters most of the time. The single characters would still have the archaic Chinese meanings besides the modern meanings, while in modern Chinese, these archaic Chinese vocabulary terms and meanings are either obsolete or no longer in use.

Before the 20th century,
Vietnamese uses Chinese script but speaks Vietnamese. They later devised a script based on Chinese called Chu Nom.

Chinese and Japanese are definitely more similar than with Korean. In fact, the Japs use alot of the Chinese characters, just with different meaning most of the time. Of course, the rest of their language is completely different with curves and circles (from my point of view). Korean is a whole different thing compared to Chinese and Japanese.

both japanese and korean used chinese as their language. japanese used the simplified chinese in their own language, so that's why you can see some chinese in japaneese. korean used to use full chinese too. they didn't develop korean until later. korean and chinese are completely different, i don't think they look the same at all. unless your talking about the old korean language.

Until very recently, Korean used Chinese characters to represent many of their words. Although Korean doesn't use these characters much any more, many of the words still SOUND very similar to Chinese words.

So Chinese doesn't look like Korean any more, but much of the vocabulary sounds very similar.

All three languages are very similar. Ask a native speaker of one of these languages to learn one of the others, and they'll find it much easier than an outsider.

Actually to me, Japanese and Chinese look alike. Korean looks different. Unless you are talking about romanji.The characters of Jap. and Chin. looks aike to me.
Owari

chinese was the first language, then it branches off, and created Japanese, not sure about Korean, but i know it does have some chinese influences.

the chinese and japanese character are written in Kenji.

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chinese looks more like japanese
and we all have the same ancestor,and followed by the profit
most of the people decide to be a independent country,so we break up,and formed their language basing on the ancestor leaved us