the complexity is an issue, and thus, kanji learning is separated in packs, kinda like "DLC packs". Fundamental Education requires all kids to know 3000 symbols, and highschoolers learn 5000 more symbols - they are more than enough to maintain proper communication.
And, depending on what you study (medicine, chemistry, technology), you learn the "subject-specific packs" - which function like jargons in the ocidental culture.
However, some kanji are complex and frequent in mass media, so handwritten japanese tends to be very simplified or replaced with simpler symbols. For example, one of the medicine word 皮膚 (skin, tissue) is usually printed as 皮フ because 膚 never looks readable in any font (it's too crowded). Also usually melancholy is rendered as 憂うつ due to the second kanji 鬱 having 29 strokes (it looks ugly when writing in a small space, like a notebook line)
Kanji are still important however because japanese is a language with a lot of words read the same, and the kanji is how redundancies are reduced.
And, depending on what you study (medicine, chemistry, technology), you learn the "subject-specific packs" - which function like jargons in the ocidental culture.
However, some kanji are complex and frequent in mass media, so handwritten japanese tends to be very simplified or replaced with simpler symbols. For example, one of the medicine word 皮膚 (skin, tissue) is usually printed as 皮フ because 膚 never looks readable in any font (it's too crowded). Also usually melancholy is rendered as 憂うつ due to the second kanji 鬱 having 29 strokes (it looks ugly when writing in a small space, like a notebook line)
Kanji are still important however because japanese is a language with a lot of words read the same, and the kanji is how redundancies are reduced.
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