Chinese numerals
Japanese has no clear genealogical relationship with Chinese, though in its written form it makes prevalent use of Chinese characters, known as , and a large portion of its vocabulary is borrowed from Chinese. The Japanese writing system also uses two syllabic (or moraic) scripts: "hiragana" ( or ) and "katakana" ( or ), however Latin script is used in a limited fashion (such as for imported acronyms). The numeral system uses mostly Arabic numerals, but also traditional Chinese numerals.