Newbie Language Question

[Yosuke_]

Hi!
I have some questions about japanese language!
Kanji is a symbol who stands for word, for example Dragon is Ryuu.
There are allso katakana and Hiragana.
Katakana has about 40 symbols, eash symbol means one or more characters like a, chi etc.. right?
And there are Hiragana, what is the diference between katakana and Hiragana, for what are thay used for?

And another question. For example when Japanese talk thay have only one meaning for word, for example god is kami and thats it right? Or when you write it in Kanji its kami and when you write it in katakana or hiragana does it has the same spelling kami or in for example katakana it is spelled different? Does it change words spelling or meaning if i write it in diferent character set? I hope you will understand my question! Thank you!

[PaulTB]

I have some questions about japanese language!
I suggest you check here (http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~ssb/access?Aelt=Japanese&Aesi=on&Aesu=on&Aeso=on&Ael=on&Au=www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/jwriting.html) before going any further.

Kanji is a symbol who stands for word, for example Dragon is Ryuu
Not quite.

There are also katakana and Hiragana.
Katakana has about 40 symbols, eash symbol means one or more characters like a, chi etc.. right?
Pretty much.

And there are Hiragana, what is the diference between katakana and Hiragana, for what are thay used for?
The mean the same sounds - but katakana is generally used for words of non-Japanese origin

And another question. For example when Japanese talk thay have only one meaning for word, for example god is kami and thats it right?
Er, no.

Or when you write it in Kanji its kami and when you write it in katakana or hiragana does it has the same spelling kami or in for example katakana it is spelled different? Does it change words spelling or meaning if i write it in diferent character set? I hope you will understand my question! Thank you!
I think you're a little confused on what Kanji are here.