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2. Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts

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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. 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.

4. 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. [1] Often, this support must be explicitly enabled. Right-to-left text can be mixed with left-to-right text in bi-directional text.

5. Brahmic scripts - Wikipedia

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   The tabular presentation and dictionary order of the modern kana system of Japanese writing is believed to be descended from the Indic scripts, most likely through the spread of Buddhism. [ 1 ] Southern Brahmi evolved into the Kadamba , Pallava and Vatteluttu scripts, which in turn diversified into other scripts of South India and Southeast Asia.

6. Ru (kana) - Wikipedia

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   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).

7. Kanji - Wikipedia

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   Kanji (漢字, pronounced ⓘ) are logographic Chinese characters, adapted from Chinese script, used in the writing of Japanese. [1] They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequently-derived syllabic scripts of hiragana and katakana.

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. Talk : Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts

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   If it is wrong, please tell me so - but I have checked this very carefully. It is a frequent myth that Japanese has been written from right to left in succeeding horizontal rows. One of the big motivations for making this page was that I wanted to say this is wrong here and explain what right-to-left horizontal writing is.