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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 list is sorted by Japanese reading (on'yomi in katakana, then kun'yomi in hiragana), in accordance with the ordering in the official Jōyō table. This list does not include characters that were present in older versions of the list but have since been removed (勺, 銑, 脹, 錘, 匁).
Katakana iteration mark: ヾ: 2153: 1-1-20: 30FE Katakana iteration mark with a dakuten (voiced consonant) ゝ: 2154: 1-1-21: 309D hiraganagaeshi (ひらがながえし) kurikaeshi (くりかえし) Hiragana iteration mark. For example, はは (haha) could be written はゝ. ゞ: 2136: 1-1-22: 309E Hiragana iteration mark with a dakuten (voiced ...
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.
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.
Katakana is a Unicode block containing katakana characters for the Japanese and ... Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) ... "7.16 JIS X0213 Symbols", Minutes ...
Each kana, which may be a hiragana or katakana character, corresponds to one sound in Japanese. As depicted at the right using hiragana characters, the sequence begins with あ ( a ), い ( i ), う ( u ), え ( e ), お ( o ), then continues with か ( ka ), き ( ki ), く ( ku ), け ( ke ), こ ( ko ), and so on and so forth for a total of ...
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.