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The Japanese started using kanji characters around the 5th century AD when they were introduced from China. Kanji became an essential part of the Japanese writing system, used alongside hiragana and katakana scripts.
Kanji can be spelled two different ways. One way is the hiragana version: かんじ The kanji version of the word kanji would look like this: 漢字 The katakana version is not used in the proper Japanese text but katakana of kanji would look like this: カンジ Again, the katakana version is not used in proper Japanese text.
The three Japanese alphabets are Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana is used for native Japanese words and grammatical particles, Katakana is used for borrowed words and onomatopoeia, and Kanji consists of Chinese characters used for nouns, verbs, and adjectives in the Japanese language.
No, Japanese letters are not the same as Chinese letters. Japanese uses a combination of three writing systems: kanji, hiragana, and katakana. Kanji characters were borrowed from Chinese but have different meanings and pronunciations in Japanese. Hiragana and katakana are syllabic scripts unique to Japanese.
The word ball in Japanese is Tama or Dama. The kanji for it is 玉