Continuing on, Spoken Japanese and Chinese have little to no relation, except for Chinese words imported into Japanese. Hiragana, however, is derived from Chi

Continuing on, Spoken Japanese and Chinese have little to no relation, except for Chinese words imported into Japanese. Hiragana, however, is derived from Chinese characters thousands of years ago. The Chinese characters were used in Japanese writing to write words phonetically. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hiragana_origin.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hiragana_origin.svg