Japanese has no clear genealogical relationship with Chinese, although it makes prevalent use of Chinese characters, or , in its writing system, and a large portion of its vocabulary is borrowed from Chinese. Along with "kanji", the Japanese writing system primarily uses two syllabic (or moraic) scripts, "hiragana" ( or ) and "katakana" ( or ). Latin script is used in a limited fashion, such as for imported acronyms, and the numeral system uses mostly Arabic numerals alongside traditional Chinese numerals.