one main question i always wanted to know was how do i spell with the japanese letters or "symbols". I have seen the letters for Japanese and all, it's just that when i see 3 different symbols used to spelled the word "CAT" and when i see the japanese version of it, it's one whole symbol. How is that? my 1st idea is that they fuse all the symbols from "c" "a" "t" and form "CAT" but if it's not that way....then how?