User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-26074976-20131004164518/@comment-4819590-20131005104047


 * ) Since hiragana and katakana are phonetic, those wouldn't be symbols, since they don't "symbolize" the word, just like the letters of the Alphabet aren't symbols.

And anyway, I'll stop sounding full of myself and admit that, even though I've been speaking Japanese for years, and I've lived here for going on around 5 years now, some fonts make the smaller kana look almost the same size. When I write it by hand I always make it time. My name has 2 of them!