Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Japanese calligraphy (書道, shodō), also called shūji (習字), is a form of calligraphy, or artistic writing, of the Japanese language. Written Japanese was originally based on Chinese characters only , but the advent of the hiragana and katakana Japanese syllabaries resulted in intrinsically Japanese calligraphy styles.
Drawing ensō is a disciplined-creative practice of Japanese ink painting, sumi-e. The tools and mechanics of drawing the ensō are the same as those used in traditional Japanese calligraphy: One uses an ink brush to apply ink to washi (a thin Japanese paper). The circle may be open or closed.
komejirushi (米印, "rice symbol") This symbol is used in notes (註, chū) as a reference mark, similar to an asterisk ＊ 2196: 1-1-86: FF0A: hoshijirushi (星印, "star symbol") asterisk (アステリスク, "asterisk") This symbol is used in notes (註, chū) 〽: 1-3-28: 303D: ioriten (庵点) This mark is used to show the start of a ...
Ming typefaces (Mincho in Japanese; also known as Song when used with simplified Chinese [8]) are characterized by contrasting vertical and horizontal strokes. Small triangles called uroko (鱗 'fish scales') are nestled into the stroke, and are analogous to serifs in Latin script type.
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 ...
Kanji alive, a free web application for learning Japanese kanji with stroke order animations. SODER Project, 1,513 Japanese kanji stroke order diagrams and animations, freely downloadable under license. Kakijun Kanji stroke order animations. (in Japanese) Kanji stroke order font, Japanese kanji stroke order diagrams presented as a TrueType font.
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.
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.