| Kanji, hiragana and katakana work together to create a complex but efficient system. |
| Japanese grammar is in an easy script, hiragana, in which each symbol is a semi syllable, as in hi-ra-ga-na. |
| A similar system in use in Japan at about the same time, known as man'yogana, eventually evolved into hiragana, one of the syllabaries used to write modern Japanese. |
| The real principle at work is that hiragana is the default, while katakana is marked. |
| I've pretty much done the hiragana and katakana sections now, which was a major stumbling block. |
| 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. |
