View topic - Kanji Question

by **Zabuza** » Wed 04.06.2005 1:52 pm

おはよございます！！

Is kanji only used for nouns or can they be other parts of speech?

Also, are words written in kanji pronounced different from hiragana?

by **Spaztick** » Wed 04.06.2005 2:59 pm

Kanji can be used for other parts of speech (like nani which means what).

The kanji and the hiragana are the same sounds. Hiragana is all the phoetonics for Japanese, and kanji is the main writing system. Hiragana is used only for endings on kanji and a few words that have no kanji.

by **wangribing** » Wed 04.06.2005 4:25 pm

kanji is used for roots and comes from china. i studied chinese before i began japanese and now know the meaning of kanji without knowing how to pronounce it.