![]() The sets for katakana and hiragana are basically the same, but hiragana is used for native Japanese while katakana is usually used for representing foreign words, which are 9 times out of 10 English. Examples would be: fu, ka, hi, ro, se, etc. ![]() When romanized into English, they're usually pairs of letters - a consonant and a vowel. If you learn the kanji for stuff like dungeon, mountain, ocean, forest, castle, king, princess, fire, water, wind, earth, lightning, north, south, east, west, etc., you're set.Īs for katakana and hiragana, they're alphabets, but they don't represent single letters like in English except in the cases of vowels and "n". Most games that use kanji are text-heavy games like RPGs, in which case they tend to use the same stereotypical settings from game to game. Instead, you're better off learning the kanji common to video games. Unless you're extremely serious about learning Japanese, I wouldn't bother to try becoming fluent in kanji just for video games, not unless you absolutely must know every bit of a game's story. They're a real pain to learn, as grade school kids in Japan alone need to know 2000 different symbols. Kanji characters originated from the Chinese, and they represent full words or concepts. The Japanese use katakana, hiragana, and kanji.
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