The sudden appearance of tiny red spots on skin can be shocking. These pinpoint dots on the skin are the result of internal bleeding, or leaked capillaries, in the skin. The sudden appearance of tiny red spots on skin can be shocking. These pinpoint dots on the skin are the result of internal bleeding, or leaked capillaries, in the skin. Advertisment
The Chinese characters used to write out sounds were visually simplified and made distinct from the Chinese characters used as logograms. The Two Kana Systems. A syllabic grapheme in the Japanese writing system is called a kana. There are two sets of kanas, namely, hiragana, and katakana. In modern times, hiragana is used to write native Japanese words. Its origin lies in the early literary works which used Chinese characters completely for their phonetic values at the 8th century CE. This system is called the manyogana, from the anthological work Manyoshu.
We now know these as two distinct scripts â Hiragana and Katakana. Hiragana was simplified from entire Kanji characters and used for informal writing, while Katakana took on more of a âpartialâ Kanji look. For awhile, Katakana was only used by men while women used Hiragana. Eventually of course, men and women used both scripts.