<p><strong>Edit:</strong></p>

<p>droooze wrote:</p>

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  <p><em>韓文習慣用「眞」字，日語和中文用「真」字，「純眞」在中文或者日文必須寫成「純真」。如果寫成「眞」就只出現于日本專用名詞了。</em> </p>
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<p>Input 純眞 only yield Japanese results because only Japanese still use  眞 in written (name only Kanji). All the pictures in the results are having the brand name "純眞正山本" in  either it's file name or description tag.</p>

<p>As droooze stated, to search 'naive, innocent' in Chinese term, you have to input  '純真' instead</p>

<p>~~~~~~~~~~~</p>

<p>純 ='pure'; 眞= ' real' . You got those results because those products have these two characters in the file name or description tag. </p>

<p>純 and 眞 are originated from Chinese character, Both Japanese and Korea imported these characters (either Japanese got it first or Korea got it first) </p>

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  <p><a href="https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%B4%94%E7%9C%9F" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%B4%94%E7%9C%9F</a></p>
  
  <p>純真</p>
  
  <p>日本語 (じゅんしん)</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%B4%94%E7%9C%9E" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%B4%94%E7%9C%9E</a></p>
  
  <p>純眞（순진）</p>
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@droooze But 純眞 does appear on those Japanese product's pictures, And I am sure 眞 is still a legit Chinese Character although less common than 真. From the results we got from 純眞, we know Google treats 眞 and 真 as the same character, when it can't find 純真, it look for 純眞 instead
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@droooze Ah, you are correct, 純眞/ (pure and real) / 純正 (pure and authentic) and '純真' (innocent, naive) are different things. Post edited.
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Tang Ho
<p>There's a couple of things going on here:</p>

<ol>
<li>「眞」is not used as a character representing common vocabulary in Chinese and Japanese anymore, being totally <a href="https://ko.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%B4%94%E7%9C%9E" rel="nofollow noreferrer">replaced in those two languages with the 略字 (약자, <em>abbreviated character</em>) 「真」</a>. In Japanese,「眞」retains some usage for proper nouns, while in Chinese「眞」is not used at all, unless quoting ancient texts.</li>
<li>Korean mixed Hanja-Hangul script is not really used anymore, so Google's search function will prioritise Chinese and Japanese search results when Chinese characters are used as a search term.</li>
<li>Based on (1) and (2),「純眞」will highly prioritise a Japanese proper noun, if it exists as a result. In this case,「純眞」happens to be part of the name of a product.</li>
<li>Based on (1), if you want to search for images relating to the meaning「純眞」, you need to use「真」if you're using a non-Korean search engine.</li>
</ol>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/65unx.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/65unx.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

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dROOOze
<p>The Korean word 순진하다 - to be naive, innocent, or pure - relates to the characters 純眞.</p>

<p>To get an understanding of how a word is used, sometimes I do an image search. In this case, searching for 純眞 yielded what (I think?) is pictures of Japanese whetstones:</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/HbM3S.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/HbM3S.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

<p>Perhaps these whetstones are very pure, hence the link to 純眞. But is '純眞' really rarely used apart from when describing the purity of whetstones?</p>

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Why does a search for the Hanja in the Korean word 순진(純眞)하다 yield pictures of Japanese Whetstones?
# Why does a search for the Hanja in the Korean word 순진(純眞)하다 yield pictures of Japanese Whetstones?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-11-25)

The Korean word 순진하다 - to be naive, innocent, or pure - relates to the characters 純眞.

To get an understanding of how a word is used, sometimes I do an image search. In this case, searching for 純眞 yielded what (I think?) is pictures of Japanese whetstones:

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/HbM3S.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/HbM3S.png)

Perhaps these whetstones are very pure, hence the link to 純眞. But is '純眞' really rarely used apart from when describing the purity of whetstones?

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2018-11-25. Score: 6 | Accepted answer

There's a couple of things going on here:

1. 「眞」is not used as a character representing common vocabulary in Chinese and Japanese anymore, being totally [replaced in those two languages with the 略字 (약자, *abbreviated character*) 「真」](https://ko.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%B4%94%E7%9C%9E). In Japanese,「眞」retains some usage for proper nouns, while in Chinese「眞」is not used at all, unless quoting ancient texts.
2. Korean mixed Hanja-Hangul script is not really used anymore, so Google's search function will prioritise Chinese and Japanese search results when Chinese characters are used as a search term.
3. Based on (1) and (2),「純眞」will highly prioritise a Japanese proper noun, if it exists as a result. In this case,「純眞」happens to be part of the name of a product.
4. Based on (1), if you want to search for images relating to the meaning「純眞」, you need to use「真」if you're using a non-Korean search engine.

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/65unx.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/65unx.png)


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### Answer by username_1 on 2018-11-25. Score: 3

**Edit:**

username_2 wrote:

> *韓文習慣用「眞」字，日語和中文用「真」字，「純眞」在中文或者日文必須寫成「純真」。如果寫成「眞」就只出現于日本專用名詞了。*

Input 純眞 only yield Japanese results because only Japanese still use 眞 in written (name only Kanji). All the pictures in the results are having the brand name "純眞正山本" in either it's file name or description tag.

As username_2 stated, to search 'naive, innocent' in Chinese term, you have to input '純真' instead

~~~~~~~~~~~

純 ='pure'; 眞= ' real' . You got those results because those products have these two characters in the file name or description tag.

純 and 眞 are originated from Chinese character, Both Japanese and Korea imported these characters (either Japanese got it first or Korea got it first)

> <https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%B4%94%E7%9C%9F>
>
> 純真
>
> 日本語 (じゅんしん)
>
> <https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%B4%94%E7%9C%9E>
>
> 純眞（순진）

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: @username_2 But 純眞 does appear on those Japanese product's pictures, And I am sure 眞 is still a legit Chinese Character although less common than 真. From the results we got from 純眞, we know Google treats 眞 and 真 as the same character, when it can't find 純真, it look for 純眞 instead  
> **username_1**: @username_2 Ah, you are correct, 純眞/ (pure and real) / 純正 (pure and authentic) and '純真' (innocent, naive) are different things. Post edited.  

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