Using kanji helps break up words and particles in a sentence when reading. So unless you know a lot of vocabulary, it can be difficult to tell where a word begins and ends.But this is how Japanese children first learn to read, so it’s still doable....
Although the pronunciation ka-ta-na comes from the kunyomi* of the kanji h which means 'sword' in a generic sense, the katana refers to samurai swords which have a characteristic curve and shape as shown in Figure 1. It has a single cutting edge on the far- side from the centre of ...