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  2. Hiragana - Wikipedia

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    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 katakana are both kana systems. With few exceptions, each mora in the Japanese language is represented by one character (or one digraph) in each system.

  3. Hiragana (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Hiragana is a Unicode block containing hiragana characters for the Japanese language.

  4. Cursive script (East Asia) - Wikipedia

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    Specifically, hiragana developed from cursive forms of the man'yōgana script, called sōgana (草仮名). In Japan, the sōgana cursive script was considered to be suitable for women's writing, and thus came to be referred to as women’s script (女手, onnade). Onnade was later applied to hiragana as well.

  5. Kana - Wikipedia

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    Usually, hiragana is the default syllabary, and katakana is used in certain special cases. Hiragana is used to write native Japanese words with no kanji representation (or whose kanji is thought obscure or difficult), as well as grammatical elements such as particles and inflections . Today katakana is most commonly used to write words of ...

  6. Jimi's Book of Japanese: A Motivating Method to Learn Japanese

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    Both books contain interactive exercises to improve basic Japanese comprehension. The books are aimed at a broader audience in North America and at a grade school audience in the rest of the world. In 2003, Takahashi & Black/PBJ Omnimedia (imprint) won a Parents' Choice Award for category "Doing and Learning."

  7. Ye (kana) - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version ... with text translated from the corresponding article in Japanese. (August ... version is encoded as HIRAGANA LETTER ARCHAIC YE ...

  8. Nu (kana) - Wikipedia

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    Both hiragana and katakana are made in two strokes and represent [nɯ]. They are both derived from the Chinese character 奴. They are both derived from the Chinese character 奴. In the Ainu language , katakana ヌ can be written as small ㇴ to represent a final n, and is interchangeable with the standard katakana ン.

  9. A (kana) - Wikipedia

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    A (hiragana: あ, katakana: ア) is a Japanese kana that represents the mora consisting of single vowel [a]. The hiragana character あ is based on the sōsho style of kanji 安, while the katakana ア is from the radical of kanji 阿. In the modern Japanese system of alphabetical order, it occupies the first position of the alphabet, before い.