The japanese script is a combination of several systems.It basically uses a combination of kana (hiragana and katakana) with Kanji,characters of chinese origin.
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| Kana (hiragana-top,katakana-bottom) |
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| digraphs yoon |
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| datuken kana.They are syllables that begin with the letters g,z,d,b,p |
Kanji come from Chinese.They number many thousands and are often categorized according to their stroke number.
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| Kanji by stroke order |
Furigana are small kana characters that are written either on the right or above a kanji character to help read it.
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| Furigana are reading aids |
