Japanese Kanji - A Brief Introduction to Written Japanese

by OctogenEm
Article by Andrew Bartlett
For a Westerner that is studying Japanese, the written form of Japanese presents quite a challenge. The 26 letter Latin alphabet is of no use in learning to read and write Japanese as the language uses a completely different character set. Written Japanese actually has three different character sets: Hiragana, Katakana, and Japanese Kanji. The first two, Hiragana and Katakana are called Kana and they each consist of 46 characters. The remaining

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