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  2. 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.

  3. Hepburn romanization - Wikipedia

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    Although Kunrei-shiki romanization is the style favored by the Japanese government, Hepburn remains the most popular method of Japanese romanization. It is learned by most foreign students of the language, and is used within Japan for romanizing personal names, locations, and other information, such as train tables and road signs.

  4. List of Japanese typographic symbols - Wikipedia

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    1-1-24: 4EDD: dō no jiten (同の字点) Kanji repetition mark ヽ: 2152: 1-1-19: 30FD katakanagaeshi (かたかながえし) kurikaeshi (くりかえし) Katakana iteration mark: ヾ: 2153: 1-1-20: 30FE Katakana iteration mark with a dakuten (voiced consonant) ゝ: 2154: 1-1-21: 309D hiraganagaeshi (ひらがながえし) kurikaeshi ...

  5. Help:IPA/Japanese - Wikipedia

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    It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Japanese in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing consensus on the talk page first.

  6. Japanese phonology - Wikipedia

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    Japanese phonology has been affected by the presence of several layers of vocabulary in the language: in addition to native Japanese vocabulary, Japanese has a large amount of Chinese-based vocabulary (used especially to form technical and learned words, playing a similar role to Latin-based vocabulary in English) and loanwords from other ...

  7. Social media is heating up over why Asians don’t have ... - AOL

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    Social media users are using the heat wave as a chance to point out many Asians simply don’t smell. According to experts, there’s actually a gene mutation behind it.

  8. Kunrei-shiki romanization - Wikipedia

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    Kunrei-shiki romanization (Japanese: 訓令式ローマ字, Hepburn: Kunrei-shiki rōmaji), also known as the Monbusho system (named after the endonym for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) or MEXT system, [1] is the Cabinet-ordered romanization system for transcribing the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet.

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    Byredo Gypsy Water $190-$270 Buy Now . Annick Goutal Vanille Exquise Eau de Toilette. While this perfume is a lighter eau de toilette, its scent still packs a punch, Shapiro says.