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so: translit. with dakuten: zo: hiragana origin: 曽: katakana origin: 曽: Man'yōgana: 宗 祖 素 蘇 十 所 則 曾 僧 増 憎 衣 背 苑: Voiced Man'yōgana: 俗 序 叙 賊 存 茹 鋤: spelling kana: そろばんのソ (Soroban no "so") Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented morae with one of two different vowel sounds, which ...
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 ...
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.
The hiragana is made in two strokes, while the katakana in three. Both represent [ jo ]. When small and preceded by an -i kana, this kana represents a palatalization of the preceding consonant sound with the [o] vowel (see yōon ).
Buddhist monks who invented katakana chose to use the word order of Sanskrit and Siddham, since important Buddhist writings were written with those alphabets. [3] In an unusual set of events, although it uses Sanskrit organization (grid, with order of consonants and vowels), it also uses the Chinese order of writing (in columns, right-to-left).
so: ko: o: n: Kana modifiers and marks ... Stroke order in writing と Stroke order in writing ト. The Katakana ト is made from two strokes:
Sa (hiragana: さ, katakana: サ) is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.Both represent [sa].The shapes of these kana originate from 左 and 散, respectively.
め, in hiragana, or メ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both versions of the kana are written in two strokes and represent [me] . Form