What is the Japanese alphabet called?

The Japanese alphabet does not contain letters but, instead, contains characters and, technically, they are not an alphabet but a character set. The characters in the chart below are called Hiragana. Hiragana is the main alphabet or character set for Japanese. Japanese also consists of two other character sets – Kanji (Chinese characters),

What is katakana ( レン�ホン)?

Katakana (カタカナ) is the 2nd Japanese alphabet which we’ll look at. It is fairly similar to Hiragana but only used in particular situations. The number of letters in Katakana is 46. This is the same as Hiragana as the same sounds are represented, but just written in different ways.

How many kanji characters are in the Japanese alphabet?

Kanji Between 5,000 and 10,000 Chinese characters, or Kanji, are used in written Japanese. An educated person can read about 10,000 Kanji symbols; the government has published a list of 2,000 that it considers basic. The popular SJIS (Shift-JIS) font has 6,355 Kanji ideographs (and 83 Hiragana and 86 Katakana symbols).

Is hiragana the most important Japanese alphabet?

Hiragana and Kanji cannot claim the same thing, making Hiragana the most important Japanese Alphabet in theory. A Kanji for example can also be written in Hiragana, but we’ll come to that later! For foreign learners, learning Hiragana is the simplest, most useful introduction to gain a basic understanding of the Japanese language.

Is learnjapanese kitsunekko down?

: LearnJapanese kitsunekko is down! Does someone have a backup? Kitsunekko (the site that hosted and compiled JP/CN/KR/EN subtitles) has vanished less than 3 days ago. There was a button on the start page that let you download all of the subtitles at once, which I never did as I was short on space and never thought kitsunekko would vanish.

What happened to kitsunekko?

kitsunekko is down! Does someone have a backup? Kitsunekko (the site that hosted and compiled JP/CN/KR/EN subtitles) has vanished less than 3 days ago. There was a button on the start page that let you download all of the subtitles at once, which I never did as I was short on space and never thought kitsunekko would vanish.