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- Katakana (片仮名、カタカナ, IPA: [katakaꜜna, kataꜜkana]) is a ****anese syllabary, one component of the ****anese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in...
- units, morae. In current usage, kana most commonly refers to hiragana and katakana. It can also refer to their ancestor magana (真仮名, lit. 'true kana'), which...
- Half-width kana (半角カナ, Hankaku kana) are katakana characters displa**** compressed at half their normal width (a 1:2 aspect ratio), instead of the usual...
- for native or naturalized ****anese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific...
- set of extended katakana (Katakana Phonetic Extensions) for transliterating the Ainu language and other languages written with katakana. These characters...
- a ****anese syllabary, part of the ****anese writing system, along with katakana as well as kanji. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word hiragana...
- complex Chinese characters: hiragana (ひらがな or 平仮名, 'simple characters') and katakana (カタカナ or 片仮名, 'partial characters'). Latin script (rōmaji ローマ字) is also...
- along with the subsequently-derived syllabic scripts of hiragana and katakana. The characters have ****anese pronunciations; most have two, with one based...
- symbol"), also known as chōonkigō (長音記号), onbiki (音引き), bōbiki (棒引き), or Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark by the Unicode Consortium, is a ****anese...
- ひ, in hiragana, or ヒ in katakana, is one of the ****anese kana, which each represent one mora. Both can be written in two strokes, sometimes one for hiragana...