Question: what is the difference between chinese and japanese literature?
Answer: Chinese is written entirely in hanzi. Japanese makes use of kanji (mostly similar to hanzi), but also has two syllabaries of its own: hiragana and katakana. ... So whilst written Chinese looks like a series of regular block-shaped characters, Japanese also has a lot of squiggly bits thrown in: Chinese: 我的氣墊船滿是鱔魚。