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Japanese has three character sets - hiragana, katakana and kanji.
You can think of a "character set" as an alphabet.
Each symbol in hiragana and katakana represent a single sound. Both hiragana and katakana have the same number of symbols, representing the same collection of sounds.

Bonus learning time!
Japanese has three character sets - hiragana, katakana and kanji.
You can think of a "character set" as an alphabet.
Each symbol in hiragana and katakana represent a single sound. Both hiragana and katakana have the same number of symbols, representing the same collection of sounds.
Example:
Take the sound "ta":
- In hiragana "ta" is 「た」,
- In katakana "ta" is「タ」.
This is similar to the English alphabet, where each letter represents a sound.
Kanji is a bit different. Each symbol in the kanji represents a partial or whole word, rather than single sounds.
Example:
Let's work through an example:
- The kanji for the word "now" is「今」.
- In hiragana, 「今」 is spelt 「いま」.
- 「い」represents the sound "i", 「ま」represents the sound "ma".
- So the kanji for "now" 「今」is read as "ima".
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