The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

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which is why learning all three types of writing systems is essential to becoming fluent in the Japanese language. The Japanese alphabet consists of these three writing systems working together.