Kana and Katakana

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Kana vs. Katakana

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

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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Yu (kana)

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

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