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1. How is Japanese writing different from Chinese writing?

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Explanation:Chinese is written entirely in hanzi. Japanese makes use of kanji (mostly similar to hanzi), but also has two syllabaries of its own: hiragana and katakana. The Chinese sentence above is written in them entirely, whilst the Japanese sentences only uses two (私 and 鰻).

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