NHK2 年
Japanese Letters
The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...
朝日新聞社4 年
Oldest kanji in Japan? Stone fragment may hold the key
Researchers insist the fragment found in the Tawayama archaeological site in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, bears faint kanji characters ... script, a style in the Chinese writing system.