• Shinhoshi
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    2 years ago

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

    • idahocom
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      2 years ago

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

      • Shinhoshi
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        2 years ago

        Sure but plenty of people do have given names in kana