Further small kana characters are present in the "Small Kana Extension" block. Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems. Naomi can be spelled using hiragana, katakana, kanji, or a combination of kana and kanji. The Zhuyin phonetic alphabet and Japanese Kana both derive from Chinese characters. Hiragana, in the Kana Supplement block. Almost all written Japanese sentences contain a mixture of kanji and kana. Chinese characters, Japanese kana, and Korean hangul can be written horizontally or vertically. The symbols are a syllabary similar to the Japanese Kana system. There was an orthography of Taiwanese based on the Japanese kana during Japanese rule. Japanese also has simplified the Chinese characters it uses into scripts called kana. CJK languages don't use spaces when dealing with text containing mostly Chinese characters and kana. Nicholas has a Japanese wife named Kana. The Northern Kana dialect generally contains less sounds than standard Cebuano. It denotes the gemination of the initial consonant of the kana that follows it. This method does not require the use of a Japanese keyboard with kana markings.