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Kanji (Japanese symbols)...Writing in JapaneseThere are four different character sets used in writing modern Japanese, katakana, hiragana, kanji, and romaji. Luckily if you can read this you don’t have to be worried about using romaji, which is the Roman alphabet and widely used around the world. Just so that’s clear, yes you are reading in romaji right now. KatakanaKatakana is a script composed of 46 basic yet very distinctive characters, Katakana can be recognized by its pointy style script. It can be used to express any sound in the Japanese language. The first 5 characters correspond to the 5 vowels commonly found in many languages."A" sounds like the a in the English word father. "I" sounds like the i in the English word machine. "U" sounds like the u in the English word truth. "E" sounds like the e in the English word prey. "O" sounds like the o in the English word most. The remaining forty characters are the equivalents of an English consonant followed by one of the above vowels. This leaves one character, which is a consonant by itself, equivalent to the English “n”. HiraganaHiragana can be recognized by its rounded and curved style of script. Each of it’s 46 characters has a counterpart in katakana, but in hiragana the characters are not so distinctive.Vowels are lengthened compared to katakana, with the consonants sounding harder. Hiragana is the first writing system taught to Japanese children at school. KanjiKanji is the most complicated script in Japanese, maybe even the world. The script was brought to Japan more than 1200 years ago by the Buddhist monks. Unlike katakana and hiragana a character there are thousands of characters, each one representing an idea rather than a sound.Get your name in Japanesejapanesetranslator.co.uk have a great tool for converting your forename into Japanese. Submit you name and instantly receive an image of your name in katakana, which you can save and keep. There is also information about how to pronounce your name the Japanese. It's a fantastic tool, give it a try!
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