The "internal sense" is that they are both derived from kanji: Hiragana: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Hiragana_origin.svg https://upload

The "internal sense" is that they are both derived from kanji: Hiragana: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Hiragana_origin.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Hiragana... Katakana: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Katakana_origine.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Katakana... Kanji isn't that hard if you are realistic about how large of a task it is. Japanese children spend 10 years learning kanji at school and that is their native language.