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Hiragana is one of the two Kanas of Japanese.. the other is Katakana, and they are both used to SPELL words, in the way that we spell words in English using symbols that represent SOUND.
Kanji is the Chinese symbols that represent things as a whole. Like, an image of the thing.
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