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Many East Asian scripts can be written horizontally or vertically. Chinese characters, Korean hangul, and Japanese kana may be oriented along either axis, as they consist mainly of disconnected logographic or syllabic units, each occupying a square block of space, thus allowing for flexibility for which direction texts can be written, be it horizontally from left-to-right, horizontally from ...
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 woman writing in Persian in right-to-left direction, with a notebook computer displaying right-to-left text. Right-to-left, top-to-bottom text is supported in common computer software. [1] Often, this support must be explicitly enabled. Right-to-left text can be mixed with left-to-right text in bi-directional text.
The jōyō kanji list, consisting at that time of 1,945 characters, was published by the Japanese government in 1981 to serve as a replacement for the tōyō kanji list. This newer list was based on the older tōyō kanji list, though jōyō kanji was more of a guide to kanji usage while tōyō kanji was created to gradually eliminate kanji usage.
る (hiragana) begins with a horizontal stroke to the right, followed by a slightly longer, angular stroke going down and to the left. Finally, a curve and loop are added to the bottom that somewhat resembles the hiragana no (の). The character as a whole is visually similar to the hiragana for ro (ろ).
Written right-to-left, namasoba (生 𛁛𛂦゙, equating to 生そば, "raw soba"), consists of the kanji 生 nama followed by hentaigana derived from the kanji 楚 so and 者 (with dakuten) ba. The black vertical text nagawi ( 𛂁𛀙゙𛄍 , equating to ながゐ , the historical kana spelling of nagai ながい , "long visit"), consists ...
A horizontal line from left to right. A stroke consisting of a vertical line, a small diagonal line going upwards and to the left, and an open curve heading right and downwards. A small curved stroke on the right. Stroke order in writing オ. The katakana オ is made with three strokes: At the top, a horizontal stroke from left to right.
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