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Japanese writing system

The modern Japanese writing system (日本語の表記体系, Nihongo no hyōki taikei) uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters; and phonographic kana, which evolved from cursives/components of Chinese characters. Modern kana consists of two sets of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalized Japanese words and…

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Direction
Top-to-bottom, right-to-left · Left-to-right, top-to-bottom
Languages
Japanese language Ryukyuan languages Hachijō language
Parent systems
Japanese
Period
4th century AD to present
Script type
mixed logographic (Kanji), syllabic (Kana)
Unicode range
U+4E00–U+9FBF Kanji U+3040–U+309F Hiragana U+30A0–U+30FF Katakana

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Japanese writing system

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Triples40
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.008368
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Japanese writing system

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Direction · 2
Japanese writing system → Left-to-right, top-to-bottom, Top-to-bottom, right-to-left
ISO 15924 · 1
Japanese writing system → .mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}Jpan (413), ​Japanese (alias for Han + Hiragana + Katakana)
Languages · 1
Japanese writing system → Japanese language Ryukyuan languages Hachijō language
Parent systems · 1
Japanese writing system → Japanese
Period · 1
Japanese writing system → 4th century AD to present
Script type · 1
Japanese writing system → mixed logographic (Kanji), syllabic (Kana)
Unicode range · 1
Japanese writing system → U+4E00–U+9FBF Kanji U+3040–U+309F Hiragana U+30A0–U+30FF Katakana

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japanese kanji words used writing hiragana kana characters chinese written katakana modern system character period also may one use script

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Japanese writing systemDirectionTop-to-bottom, right-to-left1.00infobox
Japanese writing systemDirectionLeft-to-right, top-to-bottom1.00infobox
Japanese writing systemISO 15924.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}Jpan (413), ​Japanese (alias for Han + Hiragana + Katakana)1.00infobox
Japanese writing systemLanguagesJapanese language Ryukyuan languages Hachijō language1.00infobox
Japanese writing systemParent systemsJapanese1.00infobox
Japanese writing systemPeriod4th century AD to present1.00infobox
Japanese writing systemScript typemixed logographic (Kanji), syllabic (Kana)1.00infobox
Japanese writing systemUnicode rangeU+4E00–U+9FBF Kanji U+3040–U+309F Hiragana U+30A0–U+30FF Katakana1.00infobox
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カリウムinstance ofincluding chemical and mineral names0.80text
the influential genbun itchiinstance ofand the ultimate success of movements0.80text

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