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.
All Japanese family names and most Japanese first names are written in kanji. The kanji used in family names are often connected with natural phenomena. Common family names such as Matsuda (pine tree + field), Ishikawa (stone + river) or Nakata (middle of + a field) reveal Japan's agrarian past.apanese is thought to be related to the Ural-Altaic family of languages that includes Turkish, Mongolian, Manchu and Korean. An early form of Japanese existed from about the 3rd century AD. However, it wasn't until later that the Japanese gained the ability to write.