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  2. Katakana - Wikipedia

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    This was particularly common among women in the Meiji and Taishō periods, when many poor, illiterate parents were unwilling to pay a scholar to give their daughters names in kanji. [8] Katakana is also used to denote the fact that a character is speaking a foreign language, and what is displayed in katakana is only the Japanese "translation ...

  3. Transcription into Japanese - Wikipedia

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    In contemporary Japanese writing, foreign-language loanwords and foreign names are normally written in the katakana script, which is one component of the Japanese writing system. As far as possible, sounds in the source language are matched to the nearest sounds in the Japanese language, and the result is transcribed using standard katakana ...

  4. Hiragana and katakana place names - Wikipedia

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    There are a small number of municipalities in Japan whose names are written in hiragana or katakana, together known as kana, rather than kanji as is traditional for Japanese place names. [1] Many city names written in kana have kanji equivalents that are either phonetic manyōgana, or whose kanji are outside of the jōyō kanji.

  5. Japanese name - Wikipedia

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    Japanese names may be written in hiragana or katakana, the Japanese language syllabaries for words of Japanese or foreign origin, respectively. As such, names written in hiragana or katakana are phonetic rendering and lack meanings that are expressed by names written in the logographic kanji.

  6. Kana - Wikipedia

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    Today katakana is most commonly used to write words of foreign origin that do not have kanji representations, as well as foreign personal and place names. Katakana is also used to represent onomatopoeia and interjections, emphasis, technical and scientific terms, transcriptions of the Sino-Japanese readings of kanji, and some corporate branding.

  7. Man'yōgana - Wikipedia

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    Man'yōgana (万葉仮名, Japanese pronunciation: [maɰ̃joꜜːɡana] or [maɰ̃joːɡana]) is an ancient writing system that uses Chinese characters to represent the Japanese language. It was the first known kana system to be developed as a means to represent the Japanese language phonetically. The date of the earliest usage of this type of ...

  8. To (kana) - Wikipedia

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    Unicode name KATAKANA LETTER SMALL TO HIRAGANA LETTER DO KATAKANA LETTER DO KATAKANA LETTER AINU TO [8] Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex Unicode: 12787: U+31F3: 12393: U+3069: 12489: U+30C9: 12488 12442: U+30C8+309A UTF-8: 227 135 179: E3 87 B3: 227 129 169: E3 81 A9: 227 131 137: E3 83 89: 227 131 136 227 130 154: E3 83 88 E3 82 ...

  9. Ku (kana) - Wikipedia

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    く, in hiragana or ク in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora.Both represent [kɯ] and their shapes come from the kanji 久.. This kana may have a dakuten added, transforming it into ぐ in hiragana, グ in katakana and gu in Hepburn romanization.