Some Chinese characters are used in written Japanese and Korean, and were once used to write Korean and Vietnamese. Chinese characters are not easy to write, let alone to remember; so the shift of Vietnamese to romanised alphabets and Japanese and Koreans to simpler versions is understandable. Learning Chinese is definitely not easy even for Chinese. In Malaysia where there are Chinese schools and Malay schools, there are Chinese who send their children to Malay schools. I remember a cousin who cried when he had to learn Chinese. Subsequently, he was sent to a Malay school.
Here's a video featuring 3-D Chinese characters. Even in 2-D, it needs a lot of practice to master!
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