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There are exactly 46 katakana symbols and 46hiragana symbols, plus modifiers that expand those numbers to 71 symbols each.


There are officially 2,136 kanji characters, but most people know a few thousand more than that.


It is estimated that there are about 50,000 kanji in existence, but no one uses them all.

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There are three writing systems in Japanese: kanji (characters borrowed from Chinese), hiragana, and katakana. There are over 2,000 commonly used kanji characters, along with 46 characters in both hiragana and katakana.

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There is no exact number of symbols in Japanese language. It is possible to form infinite Japanese symbols. A university professor in Japan may know tens of thousands of symbols

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