KANJI = DEATH

only in japan can 千 be pronounced "sen" and mean 1000 when its alone, and when you make it 千尋　its pronounced "chihiro" and its a girls name......wtf

Stop comparing it to English, retards. It's as if in FAGGOT, the GOT-part was pronounced "paint", while in FORGOT it was pronounced "zebra". And every syllable would be like that.

There is (almost) no relation between how a kanji looks and it's pronounciation.