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Katakana is a Unicode block containing katakana characters for the Japanese and Ainu languages. Block. Katakana Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) ...
Roots of katakana highlighted Japanese katakana in a 1873 textbook Katakana was developed in the 9th century (during the early Heian period ) by Buddhist monks in Nara in order to transliterate texts and works of arts from India, by taking parts of man'yōgana characters as a form of shorthand, hence this kana is so-called kata ( 片 , "partial ...
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.
The modern Katakana e, エ, derives from the man'yōgana 江, originally pronounced ye; [9] a "Katakana letter Archaic E" derived from the man'yōgana 衣 (e) [9] is encoded into Unicode at code point U+1B000 (𛀀), [10] due to being used for that purpose in scholarly works on classical Japanese. [14]
In the Ainu language, the katakana ト can be written with a handakuten (which can be entered in a computer as either one character (ト゚) or two combined characters (ト゜) to represent the sound [tu], and is interchangeable with the katakana ツ゚.
Kotoeri (ことえり) is a discontinued Japanese-language input method that came standard with OS X and earlier versions of Classic Mac OS until OS X Yosemite. Kotoeri (written ことえり or 言選り) literally means "word selection".
F7 convert to full-width katakana (standard katakana): ほわいと → ホワイト F8 convert to half-width katakana (katakana for specific purpose): ホワイト → ﾎﾜｲﾄ F9 convert to full-width romaji , all-capitals, proper noun capitalization (Latin script inside Japanese text): ホワイト → howaito → HOWAITO → Howaito
The cyrillization of Japanese is the process of transliterating or transcribing the Japanese language into Cyrillic script in order to represent Japanese proper names or terms in various languages that use Cyrillic, as an aid to Japanese language learning in those languages or as a potential replacement for the current Japanese writing system.