Japanese scripts in which the characters represent ‘moras‘ that are mostly consonant-vowel syllables; the Japanese use two syllabaries called ‘hiragana‘ and ‘katakana‘. There is a higher incidence of illiteracy among Japanese children when reading kanji (a script borrowed from Chinese) compared to kana. The differences between the two scripts go beyond the fact that one of them has made use of Chinese.
See Alphabetic writing systems, Logographic writing systems, Orthography, Syllabary