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Originally Posted by AlanXX
To a noob, I'll put it like this: Kanji are basically two or more hiragana put together to make one kick-a55 symbol. It's read the same way, and everything. Kanji is really hard to understand, and even harder to explain. I'm still having difficulties with it. But, that is the core of it.
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What do you mean with kanji are 2 or more hiragana? You mean as sound? 気 is pronounced KI, which is only one hiragana.
Kanji is an ideogram (spell?) which is a drawing which include an idea of something in it. Basically a kanji is a word itself. Hiragana and katakana are alphabets, with the difference that Japanese alphabet works with syllables and not with single letters (with just few exception which are the vowels and the N).