The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana. Kana itself consists...

A writing system comprises a particular set of symbols, called a script, as well as the rules by which the script represents a particular language. Writing...

romanization of Japanese is the use of Latin script to write the Japanese language. This method of writing is sometimes referred to in Japanese as rōmaji (ローマ字...

In a featural writing system, the shapes of the symbols (such as letters) are not arbitrary but encode phonological features of the phonemes that they...

reconstruction from Old Japanese, or comparison with the Ryukyuan languages and Japanese dialects. The Chinese writing system was imported to Japan from Baekje around...

of Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequently-derived...

w. Boyd's Syllabic Shorthand Japanese Braille – Japanese Pahawh Hmong – Hmong The following list contains writing systems that are in active use by a population...

world Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan Japanese writing system, consisting...

English, although vertical writing is still frequently used in Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Macau, and Taiwan. Chinese characters, Japanese kana, Vietnamese chữ...

version of Japanese called rōmaji (literally "Roman character"), and the other is via keyboard keys corresponding to the Japanese kana. Some systems may also...