[ font samples | what's new? | related links | home | travel phrases ] Introduction Japanese is written using a mixture of three scripts: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Latin letters (Romaji) and symbols/dingbats (Kigo) are also mixed into modern written Japanese. Hiragana & Katakana are syllabaries. The Unicode Standard refers to Kanji characters as "Han Ideographs". Some Kanji are visually diffe