Japanese has three kinds of characters.
The Japanese alphabet is usually referred to as kana, specifically hiragana and katakana.
And, there is also Kanji.
It's these two writing scripts that comprise the some 100 kana characters that are used to write and pronounce every sound in the Japanese language.
The character resembles a wave that is curved.
This is an infantile education teaching material of "Shichida Institute for Educational Research" of Japan.
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hiragana syllabary is used to write word endings and japanese words, replacing the kanji if the kanji is not widely known or the readers are children.
It can also be used alongside kanji to indicate its pronunciation.
Japanese children study this "hiragana and katakana" first.
This photograph is the lesson scenery of the "Tanihara elementary school" of Tokyo.
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Well, the topic is returned to the hiragana.
Thus any Japanese word can be written in a way that can be read without having to remember how the word is pronounced.
Kanji has thousands of kind of characters.
This system of writing is quite complex as it consists of many thousands of characters, and thus a mastery of it would involve a mastery of Japanese itself.
One thing is for certain is that learning the kana becomes easier the more you associate mnemonics with each character.
In time, learning both the alphabets will become an easy task that you can easily fulfill.
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