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Understanding Kanji in Japanese Writing by menilanjan89nL is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Kanji are logographic Chinese characters used in modern Japanese writing alongside hiragana and katakana. They were introduced to Japan from China in the 5th century, originally used only by the Japanese court and literate class to write texts in Classical Chinese. Over time, kanji came to be used to write Japanese words and parts of speech, and two phonetic kana syllabaries descended from kanji. The Japanese government instituted post-WWII orthographic reforms including standardized kanji lists dividing ch
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