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  2. Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Right-to-left script - Wikipedia

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    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. [2] Often, this support must be explicitly enabled. Right-to-left text can be mixed with left-to-right text in bi-directional text.

  4. Japanese writing system - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Category:Japanese writing system - Wikipedia

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  6. Japanese language and computers - Wikipedia

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    Yokogaki style writes left-to-right, top-to-bottom, as with English. Tategaki style writes first top-to-bottom, and then moves right-to-left. To compete with Ichitaro, Microsoft provided several updates for early Japanese versions of Microsoft Word including support for downward text, such as Word 5.0 Power Up Kit and Word 98. [5] [6]

  7. List of programs broadcast by the History Channel - Wikipedia

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    This is an incomplete list of television programs formerly or currently broadcast by History Channel/H2/Military History Channel in the United States. Current programming [ edit ]

  8. I (kana) - Wikipedia

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    At the top left, a curved vertical stroke, ending with a hook at the bottom. At the top right, a shorter stroke, slightly curving in the opposite direction. Stroke order in writing イ. The Katakana イ is made in two strokes: At the top, a curved diagonal line going from right to left. In the center of the last stroke, a vertical line going down.

  9. Romanization of Japanese - Wikipedia

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    The earliest Japanese romanization system was based on Portuguese orthography.It was developed c. 1548 by a Japanese Catholic named Anjirō. [2] [citation needed] Jesuit priests used the system in a series of printed Catholic books so that missionaries could preach and teach their converts without learning to read Japanese orthography.