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Japanese does not have an alphabet. It has 2 syllabaries and it also uses Chinese characters.

There are 204 "Letters" in the Hiragana and Katakana, which are syllabaries, not alphabets. (Each character in the syllabary respresents a whole syllable, not a letter).

The number of Kanji, or Chinese Characters is debatable, as upwards of 70,000 characters. But only 2136 are officially used as of 2017.

Also the Arabic Numerals are used ( 0-9 in symbol form), and Latin letters are sometimes used.
Japanese has three alphabets, hiragana, katakana, and kanji.

hiragana and katakana are groups of symbols that represent sounds.

Kanji are symbols that represent words and thiere are over 2000 of them that Japanese people use every day.

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