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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 ...
This template shows a table of katakana syllabograms. Usually, it would be used without parameters. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status legend legend Explanation of colors used Default {{color box|{{{obsolete color}}}|Grey background}} indicates obsolete characters. String optional gojuon header color gojuon header color background color for header cells ...
Katakana is a Unicode block containing katakana characters for the Japanese and Ainu languages. Block. Katakana Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) ...
In 1978, the JIS C 6226 2-byte character set was developed to express hiragana and kanji characters. It includes katakana characters, but their codes and layout are different from JIS X 0201. Computer manufacturers developed their own extensions of JIS X 0208 to retain compatibility with JIS X 0201.
Katakana (片仮名, fragmented kana) or gojūongana (五十音仮名, fifty-sound kana): a syllabary derived by using bits of characters in man'yōgana, historically sorted in gojūon order. Yamatogana ( 大和仮名 , Yamato's kana) : hiragana and katakana, as opposed to kanji.
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.
Shinnosuke's favorite anime character, who is a parody of the mecha genre. The name "Kantam" is a parody of Gundam, as the Katakana characters ga (ガ) and da (ダ) in "Gundam" (ガンダム, Gandamu) are replaced with the characters ka (カ) and ta (タ), respectively. Kantam is made up of two units – the main robot and an identical smaller ...
In Unicode, katakana and hiragana are primarily used as normal, full-width characters (the Katakana and Hiragana blocks are displayed as full-width characters); a separate block, the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block is used to store variant characters, including half-width kana and full-width Latin characters. Thus, the katakana in JIS X ...