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The katakana form has become increasingly popular as an emoticon in the Western world due to its resemblance to a smiling face. This character may be combined with a dakuten, forming じ in hiragana, ジ in katakana, and ji in Hepburn romanization; the pronunciation becomes /zi/ (phonetically [d͡ʑi] or [ʑi] in the middle of words).
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 ...
Indicates a lengthened vowel sound. Often used with katakana. The direction of writing depends on the direction of text. ゛ 212B: 1-1-11: 309B (standalone), 3099 : dakuten (濁点, "voiced point") nigori (濁り, "voiced") ten-ten (点々, "dots") Used with both hiragana and katakana to indicate a voiced sound.
HIRAGANA LETTER TA KATAKANA LETTER TA HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER TA HIRAGANA LETTER DA KATAKANA LETTER DA Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex dec hex Unicode: 12383: U+305F: 12479: U+30BF: 65408: U+FF80: 12384: U+3060: 12480: U+30C0 UTF-8: 227 129 159: E3 81 9F: 227 130 191: E3 82 BF: 239 190 128: EF BE 80: 227 129 160: E3 81 A0: 227 ...
A handakuten (゜) does not occur with ku in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate a nasal pronunciation [ŋɯ]. In the Ainu language, the katakana ク can be written as small ㇰ, representing a final k sound as in アイヌイタㇰ Ainu itak (Ainu language). [1]
Katakana is a Unicode block containing katakana characters for the Japanese and Ainu languages. ... Sato, T. K. (2000-09-04), JIS X 0213 symbols part-2: L2/00-342:
Tsu (hiragana: つ, katakana: ツ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.Both are phonemically /tɯ/, reflected in the Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki Romanization tu, although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is ⓘ, reflected in the Hepburn romanization tsu.
katakana origin: 女: Man'yōgana: 売 馬 面 女 梅 米 迷 昧 目 眼 海: spelling kana: 明治のメ Meiji no "me" unicode: U+3081, U+30E1: braille: Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented morae with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation