hiragana and katakana?

ryanloveyukie wrote:what is the total # of letters in hiragana and katakana?

There's 46 basic characters, here's a chart:http://www.manchaca.com/~sradowski/japanese/chart.html[/list:u] If you click "next chart" at the lower right, it will send to the variations on the basic characters. Hope this helps. [/list:u]

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