Why is it that for Kanji there is a Katakana reading and Hiragana reading but they aren't the same?
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Kanji are chinese letters. Their katakana reading is an imitation of their original chinese pronunciation. Their hiragana reading is a native japanese word whose meaning was associated to the respective kanji.
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Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana, each of them has a respective function:
1, KANJIs are used for loan words from ancient China.
2, KATAKANAs are used for load words from modern Occidents, such as USA, UK, Germany, France, & etc.
3, HIRAGANAs are used for Japanese inherent words
KANJIs use HIRAGANA, others (ref #2) use KATAKANA
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