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    The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana. Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalised Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily … See more

    Kanji
    Kanji (漢字) are logographic characters (based on traditional ones) taken from Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese.
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    Traditionally, Japanese is written in a format called tategaki (縦書き), which was inherited from traditional Chinese practice. In this format, the characters are written in columns going from … See more

    Importation of kanji
    Japan's first encounters with Chinese characters may have come as early as the 1st century AD with the King of Na gold seal, said to have been given by Emperor Guangwu of Han in AD 57 to a Japanese emissary. However, … See more

    • Gottlieb, Nanette (1996). Kanji Politics: Language Policy and Japanese Script. Kegan Paul. ISBN 0-7103-0512-5.
    • Habein, Yaeko Sato (1984). … See more

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    Collation (word ordering) in Japanese is based on the kana, which express the pronunciation of the words, rather than the kanji. The kana may be ordered using two common orderings, the prevalent gojūon (fifty-sound) ordering, or the old-fashioned iroha See more

    Japanese is normally written without spaces between words, and text is allowed to wrap from one line to the next without regard for word boundaries. This convention was originally modelled on Chinese writing, where spacing is superfluous … See more

    There are a number of methods of rendering Japanese in Roman letters. The Hepburn method of romanization, designed for English speakers, is a de facto standard widely used inside … See more

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    • There are three basic scripts in the Japanese Writing System
      • Kanji: The Japanese Writing System. What is Kanji? Although they have different terms in …
      • Hiragana: The Japanese Writing System. Let’s take a look at the difference between …
      • Katakana: The Japanese Writing Style. Let’s focus on Katakana as we...
  3. https://japanpitt.pitt.edu/essays-and-articles/...

    WebThis is true not only for learners of Japanese as a foreign language but for Japanese themselves. It might be of interest to trace the history of the writing system and find out how, like anything else adopted from a …

  4. Here’s Why Japan Has 3 Writing Systems - Culture Trip

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    WebApr 16, 2018 · Here’s Why Japan Has 3 Writing Systems Overview. Kanji is the oldest and is a picture-based system from China made up of logograms, which are characters that... Kanji. Kanji was the first writing system used in Japan. It was introduced in the 4th or 5th century by way of the... Hiragana. So, if ...

  5. https://www.japanpitt.pitt.edu/essays-and-articles/...

    WebOver many centuries, the Japanese written language has consisted of many styles of …

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