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What was the relationship between Chinese and Japanese writing?

Japanese and Chinese writings are different, but in some cases use the same characters.Japanese uses different writing systems:Hirigana - Used for native Japanese wordsKatakana - Mainly used when writing foreign wordsKanji - These are characters that were borrowed from the Chinese WritingRomaji - This is used when writing Japanese characters with the Latin AlphabetChinese uses characters that they call Hanzi.Hanzi is called by different names in other countries. But in Japanese it is called Kanji.Kanji are the Chinese characters that the Japanese use along with their other writing systems (Hirigana & Katakana) . Though in Japanese one character of Kanji and represent many syllables.


Where did Japanese writing come from?

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Why do the Japanese have three writing systems?

The Japanese writing consists of three systems:KanjiHiraganaKatakanaKanji is the main body of Japanese writing system, which was developed from Chinese characters through history of the two countries. There are about 2000 Kanji used in Japanese.Hiragana is their original writing system, which is used for writing -non-kanji parts of the language, such as 'particles', 'auxiliary verbs' and 'okurigana' (inflection of different words, esp verbs].Katakana was developed as a system to write foreign words, and contains writing of syllables whose pronunciations are non-existent to the main Japanese language, such as 'fa, fi, wu, di, je, she, etc'. Katakana is also used in Japanese the way we use italics in English.


Every English alphabet translated to Japanese alphabet?

There is only one English alphabet, and it cannot be translated into the Japanese alphabet because there is no such thing as a Japanese alphabet. Japanese uses syllabaries and picture-symbols in its writing.


What is a Japanese woodblock print characteristic that Mary Cassatt used in Mother Combing Her Child's Hair?

Elevated vantage point is a Japanese woodblock print characteristic that Mary Cassatt used in her painting "Mother Combing Her Child's Hair."