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me: hiragana origin: 女: 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
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 ...
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.
As the name gyaru-moji suggests (gyaru meaning "gal"), this writing system was created by and remains primarily employed by young women. [ 1 ] Like the English phenomenon of SMS language , it is most often used for sending cell phone text messages , but while text is used as a form of informal shorthand, a message typed in gyaru-moji usually ...
Katakana; Normal m-(ま行 ma-gyō) mi: み ミ mii, myi mī: みい, みぃ みー, み～ ミイ, ミィ ミー, ミ～ Addition yōon my-(みゃ行 mya-gyō) mya: みゃ ミャ myaa myā: みゃあ, みゃぁ みゃー, みゃ～ ミャア, ミャァ ミャー, ミャ～ myu: みゅ ミュ myuu myū: みゅう, みゅぅ みゅー, みゅ ...
よ, in hiragana or ヨ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is made in two strokes, while the katakana in three. Both represent [jo]. When small and preceded by an -i kana, this kana represents a palatalization of the preceding consonant sound with the [o] vowel (see yōon). [1]
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).
The word タクシー (takushī, ' taxi ') written vertically with vertical chōonpu. The chōonpu (Japanese: 長音符, lit. "long sound symbol"), also known as chōonkigō (長音記号), onbiki (音引き), bōbiki (棒引き), or Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark by the Unicode Consortium, is a Japanese symbol that indicates a chōon, or a long vowel of two morae in length.