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Chinese: Meaning before sound
Japanese: The symphony of scripts
Kanji , adopted from Chinese, carry meaning.
, adopted from Chinese, carry meaning. Hiragana, a syllabary, represents entire sounds.
Katakana, another syllabary, is used for foreign words and onomatopoeia.
Beyond letters: Global writing systems
Logographic systems , like Chinese, encode ideas.
, like Chinese, encode ideas.
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