[OneWingedShark]

Japanese is very complicated, not as crazy as Chinese with their phonebook-level alphabet..... Korean is simpler than both

I'll agree Korean is pretty simple, but the Japanese syllabary is pretty simple itself:

1. Ye, Yi, and Wu don't occur in native Japanese, so don't have characters;
2. Wi(ゐ) and We(ゑ) are only used in old Japanese;
3. and n(ん) is the only 'stand-alone' consonant and can only end words.

The last three tables are similar-sound transforms by adding ゙◌  or ゚◌  to change the 'voice' of the consonant-part of the syllable, or produce hybrid sounds — kyo(きょ) = ki(き) + yo(よ).

[GeronL]

bump

thanks