The sudden appearance of tiny red spots on skin can be shocking. These pinpoint dots on the skin are the result of internal bleeding, or leaked capillaries, in the skin. The sudden appearance of tiny red spots on skin can be shocking. These pinpoint dots on the skin are the result of internal bleeding, or leaked capillaries, in the skin. Advertisment
The Chinese characters used to write out sounds were visually simplified and made distinct from the Chinese characters used as logograms. The Two Kana Systems. A syllabic grapheme in the Japanese writing system is called a kana. There are two sets of kanas, namely, hiragana, and katakana. In modern times, hiragana is used to write native Japanese words. Its origin lies in the early literary works which used Chinese characters completely for their phonetic values at the 8th century CE. This system is called the manyogana, from the anthological work Manyoshu.
Japanese people have two names, a surname and a given name. The surname is usually inherited from the father, and women usually change their surname to the husband's upon marriage. In Japanese, the surname comes before the given name. Thus, a person with surname Yamamoto and given name Sanae is referred to as Yamamoto Sanae. In the name order of English, this would be Sanae Yamamoto. Japanese names are usually written in kanji (Chinese characters, see Kanji). Surnames are almost always in kanji. Given names are usually in kanji. Some given names are in hiragana or katakana (see Hiragana and katakana). Japanese people do not have middle names, and middle names are not recognized in Japan, except for foreigners.