Kanji

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"Kanji" is main characters for Japanese which typically have meanings
and two sounds. The total number of Kanji usually used is over
3,000. Kanji was originated from Chinese characters and had been
modified and simplified in Japan for a long time.

There are also about 80 characters, so called "Hiragana", each
expresses just one sound and has a soft shape. Kanji is mainly used
for nouns and beginning portion of verbs while Hiragana is used for
other parts including last portion of verbs. Japanese sentences
typically consist of Kanji in 30% and Hiragana in 70%. There is one
more character set, called "Katakana", which is another notation of
Hiragana. Katakana has exactly same sound of Hiragana and a little
hard shape and is used to express exported words from other countries
based on their sounds.

I describe an example of struggle history for non-alphabetical
character set in messaging system.
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