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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.
We (kana) ゑ in hiragana, or ヱ in katakana, is an obsolete Japanese kana that is normally pronounced [e] in current-day Japanese. The combination of a W-column kana letter with " ゑ゙ " in hiragana was introduced to represent [ve] in the 19th and 20th centuries. [citation needed] It is presumed that 'ゑ' represented [we] ⓘ, and that ゑ ...
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 ...
Yu (kana) ゆ, in hiragana or ユ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represents one mora. Both the hiragana and katakana forms are written in two strokes and represent the sound [jɯ]. When small and preceded by an -i kana, this kana represents a palatalization of the preceding consonant sound with the [ɯ] vowel (see yōon).
Yo (kana) 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).
v. t. e. The romanization of Japanese is the use of Latin script to write the Japanese language. [ 1 ] This method of writing is sometimes referred to in Japanese as rōmaji (ローマ字, lit.'Roman letters', [ɾoːma (d)ʑi] ⓘ or [ɾoːmaꜜ (d)ʑi]). Japanese is normally written in a combination of logographic characters borrowed from ...
Its use in rendaku is retained in order to avoid confusion about the origin of the compound. The usage of づ (du) in modern orthography is the same, used in rendaku and after a つ (tsu). In historical kana, however, ぢ and づ were sometimes used where じ and ず are used in modern kana.
e. ふ, in hiragana, or フ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is made in four strokes, while the katakana in one. It represents the phoneme /hɯ/, although for phonological reasons (general scheme for /h/ group, whose only phonologic survivor to /f/ ( [ɸ]) remaining is ふ: b←p←f→h ...