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Originally posted by Set_0ne
Katakana is used when a Japanese person wants to spell anything thats normally writen in English..for example peoples names, alot of signs you'll see in Japan are writen in Katakana because they are English words.
Katakana and Hiragana have all the same sounds cept they are all drawn differently (of course).
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not always... "he" is exactly the same in both scripts, and "ri" is vaguely similar too... katakana isnt limited only to foreign loan words either... onomatopoeic sounds are usually written in katakana, as well as the majority of plants and some animals too... telegrams can be composed purely of katakana as well, hard to read tho
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Originally posted by ayumi_pukka89
hiragana and katakana are the simple part of the the japanese language [writing wise], kanji [the part simlliar w/ chinese writing], is the more complex writing
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whats interesting [in a geekish way] is that both hiragana and katakana evolve from kanji... hiragana "cursive kanji characters" are stylised forms of kanji, while katakana is "fragment of kanji", each katakana is part of a kanji, like a radical (i, u, ka, ni, mo etc...) or just random parts of it... sorry thats not such a good explanation, im only a student of japanese after all, not a teacher...
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Originally posted by jerms
AYE. I DONT GET KANJI. thers al ike different symbol for every word? no pattern?!
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kanji are originally pictograms, but have been stylised beyond recognition in most cases... however their original forms are more apparent in meaning, if i had the will id look around for examples, but its been a long day at work...
