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The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of three scripts:Kanji adopted Chinese charactersKana a pair of syllabaries consisting of:Hiragana used along with kanji for native or naturalised Japanese words and for grammatical elementsKatakana used for foreign words and names loanwords onomatopoeia scientific names and sometimes to replace kanji or hiragana for emphasis.Several thousand kanji characters are in regular use.
