| If someone wants to send a message in kanji, he works first in hiragana or katakana. |
| There is also two sets of Japanese syllabary: hiragana and katakana, that have only pronunciation and no particular meaning. |
| And in the same way, making a mistake on a Kanji, or even worse, using hiragana when a kanji could have been used is a sign of ignorance. |
| It is of course possible to write Japanese entirely in hiragana or katakana, and that's what Japanese children start by learning to do in school before they move on to kanji. |
| The real principle at work is that hiragana is the default, while katakana is marked. |
| In modern written Japanese, kanji, hiragana, and katakana are combined. |
