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Hiragana originated as simplified forms of similar-sounding Chinese characters. Hiragana character shapes were derived from Chinese cursive script (sōsho). Shown here is a sample of cursive script by 7th century calligrapher Sun Guoting. Note the character 為 (wei), indicated by the red arrow, closely resembles the hiragana character ゐ (wi).
A: a fist with a thumb extended to the side: I: an ASL i hand: a fist with an extended little finger: U: an ASL u or v hand: a fist with an extended index and middle finger: E: a clawed hand, with the fingers and thumb curled in; like ASL e but fingers do not need to touch the thumb
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Japanese language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
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.
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This analysis seems to be supported by the intuition of native speakers [90] and matches the use in kana spelling of a single symbol, a small version of the tsu sign (hiragana っ , katakana ッ ) to write the first half of any geminate obstruent. [91] Some analyses treat /Q/ as an underlyingly placeless consonant. [91]
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