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  2. Wa (Japanese culture) - Wikipedia

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    Wa (和) is a Japanese cultural concept usually translated into English as "harmony". It implies a peaceful unity and conformity within a social group in which members prefer the continuation of a harmonious community over their personal interests.

  3. Japanese musical scales - Wikipedia

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    A variety of musical scales are used in traditional Japanese music. While the Chinese Shí-èr-lǜ has influenced Japanese music since the Heian period, in practice Japanese traditional music is often based on pentatonic (five tone) or heptatonic (seven tone) scales. [1] In some instances, harmonic minor is used, while the melodic minor is ...

  4. International Phonetic Alphabet chart - Wikipedia

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    The following is the chart of the International Phonetic Alphabet, a standardized system of phonetic symbols devised and maintained by the International Phonetic Association. It is not a complete list of all possible speech sounds in the world's languages, only those about which stand-alone articles exist in this encyclopedia.

  5. Enclosed CJK Letters and Months - Wikipedia

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    Enclosed CJK Letters and Months is a Unicode block containing circled and parenthesized Katakana, Hangul, and CJK ideographs.Also included in the block are miscellaneous glyphs that would more likely fit in CJK Compatibility or Enclosed Alphanumerics: a few unit abbreviations, circled numbers from 21 to 50, and circled multiples of 10 from 10 to 80 enclosed in black squares (representing speed ...

  6. Japanese phonology - Wikipedia

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    Japanese phonology has been affected by the presence of several layers of vocabulary in the language: in addition to native Japanese vocabulary, Japanese has a large amount of Chinese-based vocabulary (used especially to form technical and learned words, playing a similar role to Latin-based vocabulary in English) and loanwords from other ...

  7. Shakuhachi musical notation - Wikipedia

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    Shakuhachi score Myoan-ji fingering chart. Shakuhachi musical notation is a traditional tablature-style method of transcribing shakuhachi music. A number of systems exist for notating shakuhachi music, most of which are based on the rotsure (ロツレ) and the fuho-u (フホウ) systems.

  8. Katakana (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    Katakana is a Unicode block containing katakana characters for the Japanese ... Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) ... T. K. (2000-09-04), JIS X 0213 ...

  9. ARIB STD B24 character set - Wikipedia

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    Set Type Code (column/line) Code (hexadecimal) Code (ASCII character) Comments Kanji: 2-byte: 4/2: 42: B: The escape code B used for the ARIB Kanji set [7] is used for the 1983 version of JIS C 6226 (JIS X 0208, of which the ARIB Kanji set is an extension) in ISO-2022-JP.