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There are no letters in the Japanese writing system. Japanese officially uses the following set of symbols, which total a lot more than 204:
- Hiragana - 71 symbols, each representing the sound of a syllable.
- Katakana - 71 symbols, each representing the sound of a syllable, used mainly to write foreign words.
- Kanji - officially there 2,136 symbols, each representing a word or concept. In practice, there are thousands more. Kanji are borrowed from Chinese, which has more than 50,000 symbols.
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