Here I’ll explain briefly how this came to be and how Japanese created and adopted it’s writing system.Ī well respected writer and authority on Japanese once said: “Only one predominant language of one major nation remains today without clarification of its origins - Japanese”. (Most would likely use ピッザハット for Pizza Hut, but this is just an example.) “I went to Pizza Hut but there was unbelievably no Tabasco or red pepper.” PizzaHut ni itta ga shinjirarenai hodo ni tabasuko ya reddopeppaa wa oite inakatta. Hiragana is the curvy script, Katakana is the angular / jagged script, and Kanji is Chinese Characters.Īn example of a sentence using all four writing systems (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji, and Roman letters) could be: It’s easy to distinguish Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. ・Kanji is used for words in general and the stems of verbs, though there plenty of words that are usually or can only be written in Hiragana (and of course Katakana in the case of loanwords).
・Katakana is used for loanwords from other languages, but can also be used in things like manga to indicate the speaker has an accent.
JAPANESE SPELLING ALPHABET HOW TO
Children’s books are often written with a lot of Hiragana since they don’t know how to read or write a lot of kanji yet. ・Hiragana is the “glue” of the writing system– it’s used for verb endings, particles, and can be used to write words that you can’t remember (or don’t yet know) the kanji for. If you count English which is a mandatory class in school, this brings the total count to four writing systems used. Unless you’re studying Japanese (I assume most of you are!), you may not realize that Japan uses three unique writing systems, Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.
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