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.
Japanese names have some rather special features. A very brief explanation: Most Japanese given names are written in kanji, a script with Chinese origin where each single character stands for a whole word or concept. Most names have two kanji characters, some three, some only one. If you see only the name written in kanji you do not yet know how it is pronounced because each kanji character has several possible pronounciations. The other way round is difficult as well: If you hear a name you cannot be sure how to write it in kanji.