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F7 convert to full-width katakana (standard katakana): ほわいと → ホワイト F8 convert to half-width katakana (katakana for specific purpose): ホワイト → ﾎﾜｲﾄ F9 convert to full-width romaji , all-capitals, proper noun capitalization (Latin script inside Japanese text): ホワイト → howaito → HOWAITO → Howaito
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 modern Katakana e, エ, derives from the man'yōgana 江, originally pronounced ye; [9] a "Katakana letter Archaic E" derived from the man'yōgana 衣 (e) [9] is encoded into Unicode at code point U+1B000 (𛀀), [10] due to being used for that purpose in scholarly works on classical Japanese. [14]
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Japanese on Wikipedia. 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.
In relation to the Japanese language and computers many adaptation issues arise, some unique to Japanese and others common to languages which have a very large number of characters. The number of characters needed in order to write in English is quite small, and thus it is possible to use only one byte (2 8 =256 possible values) to encode each ...
Katakana is a Unicode block containing katakana characters for the Japanese and Ainu languages. Block. Katakana Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) ...
The Japanese language has many homophones, and conversion of a kana spelling (representing the pronunciation) into a kanji (representing the standard written form of the word) is often a one-to-many process. The kana to kanji converter offers a list of candidate kanji writings for the input kana, and the user may use the space bar or arrow keys ...
This allowed 8-bit processors to encode and process Japanese text phonetically (as katakana), though without being able to process hiragana or kanji. These katakana characters were in turn displayed as "half-width kana" – a new, unorthodox, narrower form factor to fit the same width as the monospaced Latin alphabets machines were capable of ...