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Hiragana

Index Hiragana

is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and in some cases rōmaji (Latin script). [1]

125 relations: A (kana), Ateji, Bopomofo, Chōonpu, Chi (kana), Chinese calligraphy, Chinese language, Clerical script, Close vowel, Cursive script (East Asia), Dakuten and handakuten, E (kana), Early Middle Japanese, French language, Fricative consonant, Fu (kana), Furigana, Ga (kana), Gemination, Gi (kana), Glottal stop, Gojūon, Grammatical particle, Ha (kana), Haruhiko Kindaichi, He (kana), Hentaigana, Hepburn romanization, Hi (kana), Historical kana orthography, Ho (kana), Hunan, I (kana), Inariyama Sword, International Phonetic Alphabet, Iroha, Iteration mark, Japanese calligraphy, Japanese language, Japanese particles, Japanese phonology, Japanese pitch accent, Japanese writing system, Junichiro Koizumi, Ka (kana), Kana, Kanji, Katakana, Ke (kana), Ki (kana), ..., Ko (kana), Ku (kana), Latin script, List of Japanese typographic symbols, Loanword, Ma (kana), Man'yōgana, Me (kana), Meiji period, Mi (kana), Minimal pair, Mo (kana), Modern kana usage, Mora (linguistics), Mu (kana), Muromachi period, N (kana), Na (kana), Nasal consonant, Nasal vowel, Nüshu, Ne (kana), Ni (kana), No (kana), Nu (kana), O (kana), Okinawan language, Okinawan scripts, Okurigana, Oracle bone script, Palatalization (phonetics), Pangram, Phonemic orthography, Pronunciation, Ra (kana), Ramen, Re (kana), Regular script, Rendaku, Ri (kana), Ro (kana), Romanization of Japanese, Ru (kana), Sa (kana), Se (kana), Seal script, Shi (kana), Shiritori, So (kana), Sokuon, Sonorant, Stroke order, Su (kana), Syllabary, Ta (kana), Te (kana), The Tale of Genji, To (kana), Transliteration, Tsu (kana), U (kana), Unicode, Velar nasal, Voiced velar fricative, Vowel length, Wa (kana), Wāpuro rōmaji, We (kana), Wi (kana), Wo (kana), Ya (kana), Yōon, Yo (kana), Yori (kana), Yu (kana). Expand index (75 more) »

A (kana)

あ in hiragana or ア in katakana (romanised a) is one of the Japanese kana that each represent one mora.

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Ateji

In modern Japanese, principally refer to kanji used to phonetically represent native or borrowed words with less regard to the underlying meaning of the characters.

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Bopomofo

Zhuyin fuhao, Zhuyin, Bopomofo (ㄅㄆㄇㄈ) or Mandarin Phonetic Symbols is the major Chinese transliteration system for Taiwanese Mandarin.

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Chōonpu

The, also known as,,, or Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark by the Unicode Consortium, is a Japanese symbol that indicates a chōon, or a long vowel of two morae in length.

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Chi (kana)

ち, in hiragana, or チ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.

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Chinese calligraphy

Chinese calligraphy is a form of aesthetically pleasing writing (calligraphy), or, the artistic expression of human language in a tangible form.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases mutually unintelligible, language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

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Clerical script

The clerical script (Japanese: 隷書体, reishotai; Vietnamese: lệ thư), also formerly chancery script, is an archaic style of Chinese calligraphy which evolved from the Warring States period to the Qin dynasty, was dominant in the Han dynasty, and remained in use through the Wei-Jin periods.

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Close vowel

A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in American terminology), is any in a class of vowel sound used in many spoken languages.

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Cursive script (East Asia)

Cursive script, often mistranslated as grass script, is a style of Chinese calligraphy.

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Dakuten and handakuten

The, colloquially, is a diacritic sign most often used in the Japanese kana syllabaries to indicate that the consonant of a syllable should be pronounced voiced, for instance, on sounds that have undergone rendaku (sequential voicing).

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E (kana)

In Japanese writing, the kana え (hiragana) and エ (katakana) (romanised e) occupy the fourth place, between う and お, in the modern Gojūon (五十音) system of collating kana.

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Early Middle Japanese

is a stage of the Japanese language used between 794 and 1185, a time known as the Heian Period.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Fricative consonant

Fricatives are consonants produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

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Fu (kana)

ふ, in hiragana, or フ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.

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Furigana

is a Japanese reading aid, consisting of smaller kana, or syllabic characters, printed next to a kanji (ideographic character) or other character to indicate its pronunciation.

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Ga (kana)

が, in hiragana, or ガ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.

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Gemination

Gemination, or consonant elongation, is the pronouncing in phonetics of a spoken consonant for an audibly longer period of time than that of a short consonant.

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Gi (kana)

ぎ, in hiragana, or ギ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.

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Glottal stop

The glottal stop is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely, the glottis.

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Gojūon

The is a Japanese ordering of kana, so it is loosely a Japanese "alphabetical order".

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Grammatical particle

In grammar the term particle (abbreviated) has a traditional meaning, as a part of speech that cannot be inflected, and a modern meaning, as a function word associated with another word or phrase to impart meaning.

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Ha (kana)

は, in hiragana, or ハ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represent one mora.

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Haruhiko Kindaichi

Haruhiko Kindaichi (金田一 春彦, Kindaichi Haruhiko; April 3, 1913 – May 19, 2004) was a Japanese linguist and a scholar of Japanese linguistics (known as kokugogaku).

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He (kana)

へ, in hiragana, or ヘ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which represents one mora.

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Hentaigana

In the Japanese writing system, are obsolete or nonstandard hiragana.

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Hepburn romanization

is a system for the romanization of Japanese, that uses the Latin alphabet to write the Japanese language.

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Hi (kana)

ひ, in hiragana, or ヒ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.

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Historical kana orthography

The, or, refers to the in general use until orthographic reforms after World War II; the current orthography was adopted by Cabinet order in 1946.

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Ho (kana)

ほ, in hiragana, or ホ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.

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Hunan

Hunan is the 7th most populous province of China and the 10th most extensive by area.

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I (kana)

い in hiragana or イ in katakana (romanised as i) is one of the Japanese kana each of which represents one mora.

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Inariyama Sword

The iron or was excavated at the Inariyama Kofun in 1968.

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International Phonetic Alphabet

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet.

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Iroha

The is a Japanese poem, probably written in the Heian era (794–1179).

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Iteration mark

Iteration marks are characters or punctuation marks that represent a duplicated character or word.

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Japanese calligraphy

also called is a form of calligraphy, or artistic writing, of the Japanese language.

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Japanese language

is an East Asian language spoken by about 128 million people, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language.

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Japanese particles

Japanese particles, or, are suffixes or short words in Japanese grammar that immediately follow the modified noun, verb, adjective, or sentence.

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Japanese phonology

The phonology of Japanese has about 15 consonant phonemes, the cross-linguistically typical five-vowel system of, and a relatively simple phonotactic distribution of phonemes allowing few consonant clusters.

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Japanese pitch accent

is the pitch accent in the Japanese language, which distinguishes words in most Japanese dialects.

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Japanese writing system

The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.

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Junichiro Koizumi

is a Japanese politician who was the 56th Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006.

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Ka (kana)

か, in hiragana, or カ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.

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Kana

are syllabic Japanese scripts, a part of the Japanese writing system contrasted with the logographic Chinese characters known in Japan as kanji (漢字).

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Kanji

Kanji (漢字) are the adopted logographic Chinese characters that are used in the Japanese writing system.

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Katakana

is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji, and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji).

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Ke (kana)

け, in hiragana, or ケ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.

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Ki (kana)

き, in hiragana, キ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.

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Ko (kana)

こ, in hiragana, or コ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.

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Ku (kana)

く, in hiragana, or ク in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.

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Latin script

Latin or Roman script is a set of graphic signs (script) based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, which is derived from a form of the Cumaean Greek version of the Greek alphabet, used by the Etruscans.

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List of Japanese typographic symbols

This page lists Japanese typographic symbols that are not included in kana or kanji.

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Loanword

A loanword (also loan word or loan-word) is a word adopted from one language (the donor language) and incorporated into another language without translation.

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Ma (kana)

ま, in hiragana, or マ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.

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Man'yōgana

is an ancient writing system that employs Chinese characters to represent the Japanese language, and was the first known kana system to be developed as a means to represent the Japanese language phonetically.

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Me (kana)

め, in hiragana, or メ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.

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Meiji period

The, also known as the Meiji era, is a Japanese era which extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.

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Mi (kana)

み, in hiragana, or ミ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.

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Minimal pair

In phonology, minimal pairs are pairs of words or phrases in a particular language that differ in only one phonological element, such as a phoneme, toneme or chroneme, and have distinct meanings.

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Mo (kana)

も, in hiragana, or モ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.

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Modern kana usage

is the present official kanazukai (system of spelling the Japanese syllabary).

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Mora (linguistics)

A mora (plural morae or moras; often symbolized μ) is a unit in phonology that determines syllable weight, which in some languages determines stress or timing.

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Mu (kana)

む, in hiragana, or ム in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.

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Muromachi period

The is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573.

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N (kana)

ん, in hiragana, or ン in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.

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Na (kana)

な, in hiragana, or ナ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.

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Nasal consonant

In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive, nasal stop in contrast with a nasal fricative, or nasal continuant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.

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Nasal vowel

A nasal vowel is a vowel that is produced with a lowering of the velum so that air escapes both through the nose as well as the mouth, such as the French vowel.

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Nüshu

Nüshu, is a syllabic script derived from Chinese characters that was used exclusively among women in Jiangyong County in Hunan province of southern China.

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Ne (kana)

, in hiragana, or ネ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.

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Ni (kana)

に, in hiragana, or ニ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.

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No (kana)

の, in hiragana, and ノ, in katakana, are Japanese kana, both representing one mora.

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Nu (kana)

Nu, ぬ in hiragana, or ヌ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana each representing one mora.

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O (kana)

In Japanese writing, the kana お (hiragana) and オ (katakana) occupy the fifth place, between え and か, in the modern Gojūon (五十音) system of collating kana.

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Okinawan language

Central Okinawan, or simply the Okinawan language (沖縄口/ウチナーグチ Uchinaaguchi), is a Northern Ryukyuan language spoken primarily in the southern half of the island of Okinawa, as well as in the surrounding islands of Kerama, Kumejima, Tonaki, Aguni, and a number of smaller peripheral islands.

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Okinawan scripts

Okinawan language, spoken in Okinawa Island, was once the official language of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

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Okurigana

are kana suffixes following kanji stems in Japanese written words.

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Oracle bone script

Oracle bone script was the form of Chinese characters used on oracle bonesanimal bones or turtle plastrons used in pyromantic divinationin the late 2nd millennium BCE, and is the earliest known form of Chinese writing.

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Palatalization (phonetics)

In phonetics, palatalization (also) or palatization refers to a way of pronouncing a consonant in which part of the tongue is moved close to the hard palate.

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Pangram

A pangram (παν γράμμα, pan gramma, "every letter") or holoalphabetic sentence is a sentence using every letter of a given alphabet at least once.

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Phonemic orthography

In linguistics, a phonemic orthography is an orthography (system for writing a language) in which the graphemes (written symbols) correspond to the phonemes (significant spoken sounds) of the language.

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Pronunciation

Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken.

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Ra (kana)

ら, in hiragana, or ラ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.

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Ramen

is a Japanese dish.

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Re (kana)

れ, in hiragana, or レ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.

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Regular script

Regular script (Hepburn: kaisho), also called 正楷, 真書 (zhēnshū), 楷體 (kǎitǐ) and 正書 (zhèngshū), is the newest of the Chinese script styles (appearing by the Cao Wei dynasty ca. 200 CE and maturing stylistically around the 7th century), hence most common in modern writings and publications (after the Ming and gothic styles, used exclusively in print).

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Rendaku

is a phenomenon in Japanese morphophonology that governs the voicing of the initial consonant of the non-initial portion of a compound or prefixed word.

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Ri (kana)

り, in hiragana, or リ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represent one mora.

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Ro (kana)

ろ, in hiragana, or ロ in katakana, (romanised as ro) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.

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Romanization of Japanese

The romanization of Japanese is the use of Latin script to write the Japanese language.

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Ru (kana)

る, in hiragana, or ル in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represent one mora.

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Sa (kana)

さ, in hiragana, or サ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.

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Se (kana)

せ, in hiragana, or セ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.

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Seal script

Seal script is an ancient style of writing Chinese characters that was common throughout the latter half of the 1st millennium BC.

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Shi (kana)

し, in hiragana, or シ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.

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Shiritori

is a Japanese word game in which the players are required to say a word which begins with the final kana of the previous word.

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So (kana)

そ, in hiragana, or ソ, in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.

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Sokuon

The is a Japanese symbol in the form of a small hiragana or katakana tsu.

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Sonorant

In phonetics and phonology, a sonorant or resonant is a speech sound that is produced with continuous, non-turbulent airflow in the vocal tract; these are the manners of articulation that are most often voiced in the world's languages.

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Stroke order

Stroke order (Yale: bāt seuhn; 筆順 hitsujun or 書き順 kaki-jun; 필순 筆順 pilsun or 획순 劃順 hoeksun; Vietnamese: bút thuận 筆順) refers to the order in which the strokes of a Chinese character (or Chinese derivative character) are written.

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Su (kana)

す, in hiragana, or ス in katakana is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.

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Syllabary

A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) moras which make up words.

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Ta (kana)

た, in hiragana, or タ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.

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Te (kana)

て, in hiragana, or テ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.

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The Tale of Genji

is a classic work of Japanese literature written by the noblewoman and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu in the early years of the 11th century.

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To (kana)

と, in hiragana, or ト in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.

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Transliteration

Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters (thus trans- + liter-) in predictable ways (such as α → a, д → d, χ → ch, ն → n or æ → e).

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Tsu (kana)

つ, in hiragana, or ツ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.

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U (kana)

う in hiragana or ウ in katakana (romanised u) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.

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Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems.

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Velar nasal

The velar nasal, also known as agma, from the Greek word for fragment, is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.

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Voiced velar fricative

The voiced velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in various spoken languages.

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Vowel length

In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived duration of a vowel sound.

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Wa (kana)

わ, in hiragana, or ワ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.

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Wāpuro rōmaji

, or kana spelling, is a style of romanization of Japanese originally devised for entering Japanese into while using a Western QWERTY keyboard.

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We (kana)

ゑ, in hiragana, or ヱ in katakana, is a nearly obsolete Japanese kana.

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Wi (kana)

ゐ, in hiragana, or ヰ in katakana, is a nearly obsolete Japanese kana, each of which represent one mora.

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Wo (kana)

を, in hiragana, or ヲ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represent one mora.

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Ya (kana)

や, in hiragana, or ヤ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.

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Yōon

is a feature of the Japanese language in which a mora is formed with an added sound, i.e., palatalized.

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Yo (kana)

よ, in hiragana, or ヨ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.

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Yori (kana)

ゟ, read as yori, is a kana ligature – a typographic ligature in the Japanese language – consisting of a combination of the hiragana graphs of よ (/jo/) and り (/ri/), and thus represents their combined sound, より (/jori/) "from".

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Yu (kana)

ゆ, in hiragana, or ユ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana

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