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Instead of 26 letters, Japanese children learn more than 2000 characters – Kanji – during their school careers. An insight ...

The Japanese writing system consists of three different groups of characters: hiragana, katakana, and kanji. Hiragana and katakana work sort of like our alphabet in that you can use these phonetic ...