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  2. List of jōyō kanji - Wikipedia

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    The list is sorted by Japanese reading (on'yomi in katakana, then kun'yomi in hiragana), in accordance with the ordering in the official Jōyō table. This list does not include characters that were present in older versions of the list but have since been removed ( 勺 , 銑 , 脹 , 錘 , 匁 ).

  3. Category:Japanese words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Japanese words and phrases" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 387 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  4. Kana - Wikipedia

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    'Kana' is a compound of kari (仮, 'borrowed; assumed; false') and na (名, 'name'), which eventually collapsed into kanna and ultimately 'kana'. [3]Today it is generally assumed that 'kana' were considered "false" kanji due to their purely phonetic nature, as opposed to mana which were "true" kanji used for their meanings.

  5. Gojūon - Wikipedia

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    Ah, Kana Signs: Take Note How Many You Read Well. [19] The first letters in such phrases give the ordering of the non-voiced initial sounds. For vowel ordering, the vowel sounds in the following English phrase may be used as a mnemonic: Ah, we soon get old. The vowel sounds in the English words approximate the Japanese vowels: a, i, u, e, o.

  6. Ke (kana) - Wikipedia

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    HIRAGANA LETTER GE KATAKANA LETTER GE HIRAGANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGE [10] KATAKANA LETTER BIDAKUON NGE [10] CIRCLED KATAKANA KE Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex dec hex Unicode: 12370: U+3052: 12466: U+30B2: 12369 12442: U+3051+309A: 12465 12442: U+30B1+309A: 13016: U+32D8 UTF-8: 227 129 146: E3 81 92: 227 130 178: E3 82 B2: 227 129 ...

  7. Ki (kana) - Wikipedia

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    き, in hiragana, キ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.Both represent [ki] and are derived from a simplification of the 幾 kanji.The hiragana character き, like さ, is drawn with the lower line either connected or disconnected.

  8. Romanization of Japanese - Wikipedia

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    The list below shows the Japanese readings of letters in Katakana, for spelling out words, or in acronyms. For example, NHK is read enu-eichi-kē ( エヌ・エイチ・ケー ) . These are the standard names, based on the British English letter names (so Z is from zed , not zee ), but in specialized circumstances, names from other languages ...

  9. Japanese writing system - Wikipedia

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    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.