易混淆的单词： Katakana

Japanese has 3 main writing systems : hiragana , katakana and kanji .

日文有3种主要的书写系统：平假名，片假名和汉字。

Hiragana and katakana put together are known collectively as the " kana " .

平假名和片假名和在一起叫假名。

Unlike our roman characters , each character , whether hiragana , katakana , or kanji , is square and of identical size .

不象罗马字符，每个字符，无论平假名，片假名抑或都是方正的并且大小相同的。

Chinese pictograms were , for example , dismantled to form two entirely new alphabets , hiragana and katakana , while a new set of japanese readings was imposed on the original chinese characters .

例如，中国的象形字被分拆成两种全新的字母：平假名和片假名，而中国汉字也被赋予了新的日本发音。

In japan , where three writing systems are combined into one , mobiles and computers use the simpler hiragana and katakana scripts for inputting - meaning users may forget the kanji , a third strand of japanese writing similar to chinese characters .

在日本，人们把三种文字概括成了一种，手机和电脑中使用较简单的平假名和片假名输入法，这也意味着另一种类似于汉字的文字系统----日本汉字，将难逃被遗忘的命运。