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In Japan, there are 3 writing systems:

  1. Hiragana - 46 phonetic symbols plus modifiers to create 71 symbols
  2. Katakana - 46 phonetic symbols plus modifiers to create 71 symbols
  3. Kanji - officially 2,136 (but in actuality, there are more than 50,000)
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