| I've pretty much done the hiragana and katakana sections now, which was a major stumbling block. |
| A practical reason is that text full of minimally simple hiragana strokes looks like a carpet pattern, hard to read quickly. |
| In modern written Japanese, kanji, hiragana, and katakana are combined. |
| There is also two sets of Japanese syllabary: hiragana and katakana, that have only pronunciation and no particular meaning. |
| The real principle at work is that hiragana is the default, while katakana is marked. |
| Kanji, hiragana and katakana work together to create a complex but efficient system. |
