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What are the letters of the Japanese alphabet?

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Japanese uses three character sets: Hiragana and Katakana, both native, and Kanji, the Chinese character set, which is much more geometric in appearance.

One authority states 50,004 characters for Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana can be researched from Wikipedia.

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