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促音 (sokuon, literally "rushed sound"): the small kana っ (historically represented by the full-sized kana つ and く), used to represent the moraic obstruent /Q/. Dictionaries [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] lists 促声 ( sokusei , literally "rushed voice") as a synonym, suggesting its origin in Middle Chinese phonology, where 促聲 refers to a ...
Kana (仮名, false name) or kana (仮字, false character): a syllabary. Magana (真仮名, true kana) or otokogana (男仮名, men's kana): phonetic kanji used as syllabary characters, historically used by men (who were more educated). Man'yōgana (万葉仮名, kana used in the Man'yōshū): the most prominent system of magana.
The Chaku-Uta and Chaku-Uta Full downloads exceeded 1 million within 3 months of its release. This milestone was the second fastest in history, second only to GReeeeN's "Kiseki" (1 million in 1 month) and "Ai Uta" (1 million in 3 months). In addition, the song was ranked No. 1 on the annual Chaku-Uta Full paid music download chart for that year ...
The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalized Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis.
YouTube Music is a music streaming service developed by the American video platform YouTube, a subsidiary of Alphabet's Google.The service is designed with an interface that allows users to simultaneously explore music audios and music videos from YouTube-based genres, playlists and recommendations.
Instead of the kana き, these are formed with the kana for ku, く/ク. Some older transliterations in English follow the earlier pronunciation, e.g. Kwaidan, Kwannon, and such yōon may appear in loanwords e.g. ムジカ・アンティクヮ・ケルン "Musica Antiqua Köln". They were also used to write Hakka in Taiwan under Japanese rule.
Kana Nishino (西野カナ, Nishino Kana, born March 18, 1989) is a Japanese singer and songwriter signed with SME Records' Newcome Inc. She debuted on February 20, 2008 with the single "I." Widely considered one of Japan's most popular songstresses of the late 2000s and 2010s, she gained early popularity with the R&B singles " Tookutemo ...
The Meiji-era Classical Japanese version of the Bible renders Jehovah as ヱホバ (Yehoba), and ヱ (ye) is also used to transcribe any Hebrew name spelled with Je in English (pronounced "ye" in Hebrew, though), such as Jephthah (ヱフタ, Yefuta); the modern Japanese version, on the other hand, only uses エ (e), hence エホバ (Ehoba) and ...