As someone who has dedicated their life to better understanding the Japanese writing system, I am drawing upon my years of knowledge to objectively declare this as boring.
BREAKING: Japan’s kanji character of the year is 税 (“zei”), which means taxes, according to the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation’s annual poll of the Japanese public.
@ScriptingJapan
a lot clicked into place when I learned it’s just “let the public vote and declare the most popular choice to be the winner”
like, oh, that’s why it’s always so on-the-nose