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  2. Katakana - Wikipedia

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    Katakana (片仮名、カタカナ, IPA: [katakaꜜna, kataꜜkana]) is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, [2] kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word katakana means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived from components or fragments of more ...

  3. Japanese writing system - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. U (kana) - Wikipedia

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    U (hiragana: う, katakana: ウ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. In the modern Japanese system of alphabetical order, they occupy the third place in the modern Gojūon (五十音) system of collating kana. In the Iroha, they occupied the 24th position, between む and ゐ. In the Gojūon chart (ordered by columns ...

  5. A (kana) - Wikipedia

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    A (hiragana: あ, katakana: ア) is a Japanese kana that represents the mora consisting of single vowel [a]. The hiragana character あ is based on the sōsho style of kanji 安, while the katakana ア is from the radical of kanji 阿. In the modern Japanese system of alphabetical order, it occupies the first position of the alphabet, before い.

  6. Ya (kana) - Wikipedia

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    Ya (hiragana: や, katakana: ヤ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is written in three strokes, while the katakana is written in two. Both represent [ja]. Their shapes have origins in the character 也.

  7. Katakana (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    Japanese Ainu: Assigned: 96 code points: Unused: ... Katakana is a Unicode block containing katakana characters for the Japanese and Ainu languages. Block. Katakana

  8. N (kana) - Wikipedia

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    One of the various meanings of the verb haneru (撥ねる) is to "make an upward brush-stroke" when writing, [10] which is a gesture that is involved in writing the kana ん and ン. Another meaning is rather specific, to 'pronounce "n" as a syllabic consonant', [ 10 ] in other words, to make the sounds represented by the kana ん and ン.

  9. Ko (kana) - Wikipedia

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    こ, in hiragana or コ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.Both represent IPA:.The shape of these kana comes from the kanji 己.. This character may be supplemented by a dakuten; it becomes ご in hiragana, ゴ in katakana and go in Hepburn romanization.