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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 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.
The modern Katakana e, エ, derives from the man'yōgana 江, originally pronounced ye; [7] a "Katakana letter Archaic E" derived from the man'yōgana 衣 (e) [7] is encoded into Unicode at code point U+1B000 (𛀀), [8] due to being used for that purpose in scholarly works on classical Japanese. [12]
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.
Ya (hiragana: や, katakana: ヤ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is written in three strokes, while the katakana is written in two. Both represent [ja]. Their shapes have origins in the character 也.
よ, in hiragana or ヨ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is made in two strokes, while the katakana in three. Both represent [jo]. When small and preceded by an -i kana, this kana represents a palatalization of the preceding consonant sound with the [o] vowel (see yōon). [1]
HIRAGANA LETTER N KATAKANA LETTER N HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER N HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL N KATAKANA LETTER SMALL N Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex dec hex Unicode: 12435: U+3093: 12531: U+30F3: 65437: U+FF9D: 110947: U+1B163: 110951: U+1B167 UTF-8: 227 130 147: E3 82 93: 227 131 179: E3 83 B3: 239 190 157: EF BE 9D: 240 155 133 163 ...
A few loanword such as シークヮーサー(shiikwaasa from Okinawan language) and ムジカ・アンティクヮ・ケルン (Musica Antiqua Köln, German early music group) contains this letter in Japanese. Katakana ワ is also sometimes written with dakuten, ヷ, to represent a /va/ sound in foreign words; however, most IMEs lack a ...