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t. e. Hiragana (平仮名, ひらがな, IPA: [çiɾaɡaꜜna, çiɾaɡana (ꜜ)]) is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana as well as kanji. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word hiragana means "common" or "plain" kana (originally also "easy", as contrasted with kanji). [1][2][3] Hiragana and ...
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.
A game of shiritori progressing from right to left. Shiritori (しりとり; 尻取り) is a Japanese word game in which the players are required to say a word which begins with the final kana of the previous word. No distinction is made between hiragana, katakana, and kanji. "Shiritori" literally means "taking the end" or "taking the rear".
Enclosed Ideographic Supplement (Unicode block) has a single hiragana character: U+1F200. Kana Supplement (Unicode block) has a single katakana and 255 hentaigana characters. Kana Extended-A (Unicode block) continues with additional 31 hentaigana characters. Kana Extended-B (Unicode block) continues with additional kana for Taiwanese Hokkien.
Japanese. The Iroha (いろは) is a Japanese poem. Originally the poem was attributed to Kūkai, the founder of Shingon Buddhism, but more modern research has found the date of composition to be later in the Heian period (794–1179). [1] The first record of its existence dates from 1079.
Japanese counter word. In Japanese, counter words or counters (助数詞, josūshi) are measure words used with numbers to count things, actions, and events. Counters are added directly after numbers. [1] There are numerous counters, and different counters are used depending on the kind or shape of nouns that are being described. [1]
Help. : IPA/Japanese. This is the for 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. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any ...
Single-player, multiplayer (up to 16 players) Kanji Sonomama Rakubiki Jiten DS (漢字そのままDS楽引辞典, lit. "Kanji DS Advanced Dictionary"), is a Kanji - English - Japanese dictionary based training software developed for the Nintendo DS and released on April 13, 2006. The software was developed by Nintendo's Software Development and ...