
or are kanji the Japanese symbols?
I'm fairly ignorant when it comes to these things. (obviously!)
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Sat 23 Feb 2008, 0:56,
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I'm fairly ignorant when it comes to these things. (obviously!)

...are glyphs from Mandarin that were incorporated into the Japanese language.
There's Hiragana which is used for spelling out words for which there is no Kanji. Each glyph in Hiaragana represents a syllable sound. It's used often for romanised words... such as "Playstation" becomes "Pureisuteishon"
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There's Hiragana which is used for spelling out words for which there is no Kanji. Each glyph in Hiaragana represents a syllable sound. It's used often for romanised words... such as "Playstation" becomes "Pureisuteishon"