The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana. Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or … See more

Kanji
Kanji (漢字) are logographic characters (Japanese-simplified since 1946) taken from Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese.
It is known from archaeological evidence that the first … See more

Japanese is normally written without spaces between words, and text is allowed to wrap from one line to the next without regard for word boundaries. This convention was originally modelled on Chinese writing, where spacing is superfluous … See more

• Ainu language § Writing
• Chinese writing system
• Genkō yōshi (graph paper for writing Japanese)
• Iteration mark (Japanese duplication marks) See more

Collation (word ordering) in Japanese is based on the kana, which express the pronunciation of the words, rather than the kanji. The kana may … See more

Importation of kanji
Japan's first encounters with Chinese characters may have come as early as the 1st century AD with the See more

There are a number of methods of rendering Japanese in Roman letters. The Hepburn method of romanization, designed for English … See more