I think postponing the study of the 汉字 associated with your new vocabulary is a reasonable strategy, but it comes with some risks to your goal of making more rapid progress. One thing I would consider if I were in your situation (as I understand it from your brief description) is whether the sort of language inputs and learning experiences available to you would be reduced if you ignore 汉字. When I try to get native-speakers of Chinese to interact with me online using primarily pīnyīn, I get a lot of resistance. For example, I made a short notebook post in pīnyīn: http://www.italki.com/notebook/entry/97712.htm One of the correctors immediately transcribed it into 汉字 and made this comment: 我看得累死了，看汉字我一眼能看十行，拼音要一个一个去看，真的累。[in pīnyīn this reads: Wǒ kàn de lèi sǐle, kàn hànzì wǒ yīyǎn néng kàn shí háng, pīnyīn yào yīgè yīgè qù kàn, zhēn de lèi. ] (rough translation, please suggest improvements Dear Readers): Reading this really wears me out; when I read hànzì, in a single glance I can read everything, with pīnyīn I have to go through it one word at a time, it's really tiring. I've also met resistance when trying to use pīnyīn in text chatting. So be prepared to lose some potential sources of input. If you are learning primarily through self study, I'd say go for it, just focus on words and sentences as sound-meaning associations, forget about the added layer of graphical representation for now. If you are taking formal classes, and the course structure and your teacher don't seem to raise problems, I think it is a reasonable strategy, give it a try.

(part 2) I would recommend though that you try to evaluate your time savings empirically. The week before you stop, carefully measure how much time you have to spend just on character study, then measure again later after you have stopped. If the savings aren't that big, you might to go back to the characters, because they do provide some useful hints about pronunciation and meaning. (And knowing Japanese, you are probably more attuned to this than most.) Since you have B2 level skills in Japanese (and I assume you spent the typical amount of time learning Kanji), I agree that this gives you a very good foundation to learn hànzì rapidly later on. You might also consider a compromise strategy, sharply reducing the amount of time you devote to character study, but still doing some. For example, you might want incorporate a brief exposure to the written forms, but not do exercises (and handwriting, yuck!) for mastery. Or you might concentrate only on those characters you encounter that come in families, so what you acquire today is a foundation for future learning and not just a one-off association. See http://www.zhongwen.com to help identify families, or consult _A dictionary of Chinese characters: Accessed by phonetics_ by Stewart Paton. I also have compiled some lists of characters by family which I could share if you are interested. One good thing is that you can always change your mind, and reverse your decision at any time. I believe in adjusting my set of language learning activities to "tweak the cognitive load" on my beleaguered brain, and I periodically switch things around to when some things start to be a chore. Hope this helps, and Good Luck!

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well, i don't know how many same points are there between chinese and japanese.but i know japanese is so difficult for my feiends who are learning japanese.it's your choice which one to learn first.but if you decided to learn japanese first,i think,you should not completely drop your chinese.you still need to communicate with chinesespeakers frequently.it's easy for us to forget