Ugh… yeah, agreed; reading that was painful. To reiterate: • Chinese characters are called hànzì¹ • modern Japanese uses many hànzì, calling them kanji² inst

Ugh… yeah, agreed; reading that was painful. To reiterate: • Chinese characters are called hànzì¹ • modern Japanese uses many hànzì, calling them kanji² instead • katakana³ is used in modern Japanese to write words of foreign origin (loanwords) as well as onomatopoeia and is romanized as katakana, not katagana • hiragana⁴ is used in modern Japanese to write okurigana⁵, particles, and certain words, and is romanized as hiragana, not hiregana Here’s a typical (and extremely simple) sentence in modern Japanese that uses all three: この文はサンプルです。 This is a sample sentence. この: this (hiragana) 文: sentence (kanji) は: particle (pronounced wa) (hiragana) サンプル: sample (loanword; pronounced sanpuru) (katakana) です: particle (pronounced desu) (hiragana) ―――――― ¹ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters ² — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji ³ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana ⁴ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana ⁵ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okurigana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okurigana