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Originally Posted by Tobra
As I recall, Japanese kanji are taken from the Chinese alphabet. There are other characters as well, katakana and hirigana, I think. Been a looong time since I took Japanese.
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I think there are something like 5,000 Kanji characters, but schoolchildren get by with the basic 1,000.....And sounds can be spelled differently.
There's also Romanji(roman english), and probably something else I'm forgetting. Most likely, the Ryukuan(southern island) and Ainu(Hokaido) have different character sets as well if they use any written language.
That character "To" is the same as in Kyoto and Tokyo (capital and city).
A lot of names use mountain, river, tree, east/west/north/south, giant, and other basic meanings.