What's the rules of Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji?

Question

I want to learn Katakana and Hiragana, but I don't have a clear idea on the rules and such. Also, what are the rules of changing Romanji into Hiragana and Katakana?

Answer 1

It won't do you much good to learn katakana and hiragana without studying the language as a whole. In doing so, you will learn "the rules." It's not "Romanji"; it's "romaji". You don't "change" romaji into hiragana and katakana. Romaji is how katakana and hiragana (and kanji) are written in the Roman alphabet. Start at the beginning, and you will understand it all.  

Answer 2

Hiragana→ for verb tenses, words without kanji that are natural Japanese words, used to simplify complex kanji (apple→ringo). Use as particles, "wa" "wo" "ni" "de" etc.

Katakana→ for foreign words/names/companies.  Also, lemon is written in katakana because it has the same sounds, but it has very complex kanji.

檸檬→レモン

Kanji→ used for nouns, verb stems, names, places, just about everything that isn't described as above.

Learn hiragana and katakana first. Then you can move onto kanji because sometimes kanji has "furigana" which is miniature hiragana above it to show pronunciation.  Kanji has "onyomi" and "kunyomi" and it's important to know both.  When kanji is in a combination, it will use one sound or the other.

Example:

争 has the kunyomi "araso-" and the onyomi "sou" It means "struggle"

è­° has only the onyomi of gi. It means "debate" or "discussion"

So, when you put them together, they use the onyomi.

争議 "sougi" This means, "dispute"  

Answer 3

First learn Japanese.

When you understand "Muckahoy ding ding," you will be ready to continue.

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