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[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you get your terms mixed up? Japanese uses katakana for foreign transcription which is a perfectly phonetic alphabet.

[–] idahocom@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Japanese use Kanji for things like names. Which makes translating Japanese names into Chinese much easier.

[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Sure but plenty of people do have given names in kana