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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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Ainu language
Ainu (Ainu: アイヌ・イタㇰ Aynu.
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Bhikkhu
A bhikkhu (from Pali, Sanskrit: bhikṣu) is an ordained male monastic ("monk") in Buddhism.
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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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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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Chinese characters
Chinese characters are logograms primarily used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese.
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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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Collation
Collation is the assembly of written information into a standard order.
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Consonant
In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract.
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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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Digraph (orthography)
A digraph or digram (from the δίς dís, "double" and γράφω gráphō, "to write") is a pair of characters used in the orthography of a language to write either a single phoneme (distinct sound), or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined.
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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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Ebisu (mythology)
, also transliterated or called or, is the Japanese god of fishermen and luck.
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Edo period
The or is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyō.
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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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Gi (kana)
ぎ, in hiragana, or ギ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.
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Gloss (annotation)
A gloss is a brief notation, especially a marginal one or an interlinear one, of the meaning of a word or wording in a text.
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Gojūon
The is a Japanese ordering of kana, so it is loosely a Japanese "alphabetical order".
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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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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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Hi (kana)
ひ, in hiragana, or ヒ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.
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Hiragana
is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and in some cases rōmaji (Latin script).
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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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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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Interlinear gloss
In linguistics and pedagogy, an interlinear gloss is a gloss (series of brief explanations, such as definitions or pronunciations) placed between lines (inter- + linear), such as between a line of original text and its translation into another language.
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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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Japan
Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.
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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 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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JIS X 0213
JIS X 0213 is a Japanese Industrial Standard defining coded character sets for encoding the characters used in Japan.
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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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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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Kūkai
Kūkai (空海), also known posthumously as, 774–835, was a Japanese Buddhist monk, civil servant, scholar, poet, and artist who founded the Shingon or "True Word" school of Buddhism.
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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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Koto (kana)
ヿ, read as koto, is a kana ligature – typographic ligature in the Japanese language – consisting of a combination of the katakana graphs of コ and ト, and thus represents their combined sound, コト.
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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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Logogram
In written language, a logogram or logograph is a written character that represents a word or phrase.
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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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Man'yōshū
The is the oldest existing collection of Japanese poetry, compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Onomatopoeia
An onomatopoeia (from the Greek ὀνοματοποιία; ὄνομα for "name" and ποιέω for "I make", adjectival form: "onomatopoeic" or "onomatopoetic") is a word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the sound that it describes.
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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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Palauan language
Palauan (a tekoi er a Belau) is one of the two official languages of the Republic of Palau, the other being English.
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Phoneme
A phoneme is one of the units of sound (or gesture in the case of sign languages, see chereme) that distinguish one word from another in a particular language.
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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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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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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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Sapporo Brewery
is a Japanese brewery founded in 1876.
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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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Semivowel
In phonetics and phonology, a semivowel or glide, also known as a non-syllabic vocoid, is a sound that is phonetically similar to a vowel sound but functions as the syllable boundary, rather than as the nucleus of a syllable.
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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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Siddhaṃ script
, also known in its later evolved form as Siddhamātṛkā, is a script used for writing Sanskrit from c. 550 – c. 1200.
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Sino-Japanese vocabulary
Sino-Japanese vocabulary or refers to that portion of the Japanese vocabulary that originated in Chinese or has been created from elements borrowed from Chinese.
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Small ke
The small ke is a Japanese character, typographically a small form of the katakana character ke.
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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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Speech
Speech is the vocalized form of communication used by humans and some animals, which is based upon the syntactic combination of items drawn from the lexicon.
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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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Sutra
A sutra (Sanskrit: IAST: sūtra; Pali: sutta) is a religious discourse (teaching) in text form originating from the spiritual traditions of India, particularly Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
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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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Syllable
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds.
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Syllabogram
Syllabograms are signs used to write the syllables (or morae) of 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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Taiwan under Japanese rule
Taiwan under Japanese rule is the period between 1895 and 1945 in which the island of Taiwan (including the Penghu Islands) was a dependency of the Empire of Japan, after Qing China lost the First Sino-Japanese War to Japan and ceded Taiwan Province in the Treaty of Shimonoseki.
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Taiwanese Hokkien
Taiwanese Hokkien (translated as Taiwanese Min Nan), also known as Taiwanese/Taiwanese language in Taiwan (/), is a branched-off variant of Hokkien spoken natively by about 70% of the population of Taiwan.
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Taiwanese kana
Taiwanese kana (タイヲァヌギイカアビェン) is a katakana-based writing system that was used to write Taiwanese Hokkien (commonly called "Taiwanese") when the island of Taiwan was under Japanese rule.
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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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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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Transcription (linguistics)
Transcription in the linguistic sense is the systematic representation of language in written form.
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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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Wa (kana)
わ, in hiragana, or ワ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.
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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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Writing
Writing is a medium of human communication that represents language and emotion with signs and symbols.
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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/Kana
