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  1. All of a sudden, the hand in the toilet in Majora's Mask makes so much more sense: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyōiku_kanji#Kokkun (should go to the "Kokkun" subsection of the "Special Characters" section)
    1. …in reply to @cooljeanius
      "For example, the character combination 手紙 means 'letter' in Japanese, but 'toilet paper' in Chinese. However, the isolated characters have the same meaning in both languages: 手 (Grade 1) means 'hand,' and 紙 (Grade 2) means 'paper.'"