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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.
Due to the extent of Japanese borrowings, particularly from English, this list focuses mainly on pseudo-borrowings and commonly used loanwords from languages other than English, which are often mistaken for English words in Japan. Most loanwords, and all modern loans, are transcribed in katakana, a Japanese syllabary.
Tsu (hiragana: つ, katakana: ツ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora.Both are phonemically /tɯ/, reflected in the Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki Romanization tu, although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is ⓘ, reflected in the Hepburn romanization tsu.
The modern Katakana e, エ, derives from the man'yōgana 江, originally pronounced ye; [9] a "Katakana letter Archaic E" derived from the man'yōgana 衣 (e) [9] is encoded into Unicode at code point U+1B000 (𛀀), [10] due to being used for that purpose in scholarly works on classical Japanese. [14]
Ka (hiragana: か, katakana: カ) is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.Both represent [ka].The shapes of these kana both originate from 加. The character can be combined with a dakuten, to form が in hiragana, ガ in katakana and ga in Hepburn romanization.
Most of these novel katakana forms are digraphs, composed of standard katakana characters, but in digraph combinations not found in native words. For example, the word photo is transcribed as フォト ( fo-to ), where the novel digraph フォ ( fo ) is made up from フ (normally fu ) plus a novel small combining form of オ (normally o ).
Ta (hiragana: た, katakana: タ) is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent [ta] . た originates from the Chinese character 太, while タ originates from 多.