It is thought that knowledge of Chinese Kanji Compounds is often helpful to Taiwanese Japanese learners, who speak Chinese as their native language, when learning Japanese Kanji Compounds. For the purposes of this research, a study was conducted concerning the use of Japanese Kanji Compounds by Taiwanese learners who attend a four-year university with Japanese as their major. Through controlled composition, we collected samples of and analyzed learners' use of Japanese Kanji Compounds. The results of this analysis identified that there were errors in their use of Japanese Kanji Compounds. It is thought that these errors resulted from their knowledge of Chinese Kanji Compounds.
