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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.
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).
Character information Preview み ミ ﾐ ㋯ Unicode name HIRAGANA LETTER MI KATAKANA LETTER MI HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER MI CIRCLED KATAKANA MI Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex Unicode: 12415: U+307F: 12511: U+30DF: 65424: U+FF90: 13039: U+32EF UTF-8: 227 129 191: E3 81 BF: 227 131 159: E3 83 9F: 239 190 144: EF BE 90: 227 139 ...
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] ) .
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 word katakana means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived from components or fragments of more ...
Hiragana is a Unicode block containing hiragana characters for the Japanese language. ... Rationale for non-Kanji characters proposed by JCS committee, 2000-03-15:
Kanji (漢字, Japanese pronunciation:) are the logographic Chinese characters adapted from the Chinese script used in the writing of Japanese. [1] They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequently-derived syllabic scripts of hiragana and katakana.
The Chinese characters chosen to write syllables with the Old Japanese vowel a suggest that it was an open unrounded vowel /a/. [51] The vowel u was a close back rounded vowel /u/, unlike the unrounded /ɯ/ of Modern Standard Japanese. [52] Several hypotheses have been advanced to explain the A/B distinctions made in man'yōgana.