Sub-pages
- 1.1. Hiragana and katakana
- 1.1.1. How did katakana and hiragana originate?
- 1.1.2. Is there a kana symbol for ye or yi?
- 1.1.3. What is the use of the "we" and "wi" kana?
- 1.1.4. Is there a mnemonic for remembering the order of kana signs?
- 1.1.5. What is the origin of the gojūon kana ordering?
- 1.1.6. How does the i-ro-ha ordering go?
- 1.1.7. What is historical kana usage?
- 1.1.8. What is okurigana?
- 1.1.9. What is katakana used for?
- 1.1.10. What is the small kana "tsu" used for?
- 1.1.11. How can I distinguish similar kana?
- 1.1.12. What is hentaigana?
- 1.1.13. What is the long line symbol used in katakana?
- 1.2. Kanji
- 1.2.1. What are the origins of the kanji for sushi?
- 1.2.2. How many kanji are there?
- 1.2.3. What is the difference between Tōyō Kanji and Jōyō Kanji?
- 1.2.4. What are the Jōyō Kanji?
- 1.2.5. Which kanji were created in Japan?
- 1.2.6. Why do some gairaigo words have kanji?
- 1.2.7. Why do kanji have several different pronunciations?
- 1.2.8. Can a word have mixed on and kun readings?
- 1.2.9. Can a kanji word have more than one reading?
- 1.2.10. What are kanji radicals?
- 1.2.11. How is a kanji dictionary used?
- 1.2.12. Why do some kanji have alternative forms?
- 1.2.13. How does kanji stroke order work?
- 1.2.14. What are the Jinmeiyō Kanji?
- 1.2.15. What is the most complicated kanji?
- 1.2.16. What are itaiji?
- 1.3. Other questions on writing
- 1.3.1. What is the small katakana ke in 霞ヶ丘 and 一ヶ月?
- 1.3.2. How are animal and plant names written in Japanese?
- 1.3.3. What is furigana?
- 1.3.4. What are the systems of romanization of Japanese?
- 1.3.4.1. What is Nippon-shiki romanization?
- 1.3.4.2. What is Kunrei or Kunrei-shiki romanization?
- 1.3.4.3. What is wāpuro rōmaji?
- 1.3.4.4. Other systems of romanization of Japanese
- 1.3.4.5. A table of romanizations
- 1.3.4.6. What is the "kwa" in "kwaidan"?
- 1.3.4.7. What kana do not have romanized forms?
- 1.3.4.8. What is Hepburn romanization?
- 1.3.5. How is Japanese writing taught to Japanese children?
- 1.3.6. What are the names of the Japanese non-kana, non-kanji symbols?
- 1.3.7. What are the symbols on Japanese maps?
- 1.3.8. Can Japanese be written right to left?
- 1.3.9. What are the different styles of Japanese lettering?
- 1.3.10. What is man'yōgana?
- 1.3.11. Is Japanese ever written with spaces between the words?
- 1.3.12. Writing reforms in modern Japan
- 1.3.13. Why are election candidates' names written in hiragana?
- 1.3.14. What are the meanings of circle, cross, and triangle in Japan?
