How to Use "katakana" with Example Sentences

1. Japanese has 3 main writing systems : hiragana , katakana and kanji .
2. Hiragana and katakana put together are known collectively as the " kana " .
3. Unlike our roman characters , each character , whether hiragana , katakana , or kanji , is square and of identical size .
4. 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 .
5. 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 .