The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana. Kana itself consists...

earliest writing was invented during the late 4th millennium BC. Throughout history, each writing system invented without prior knowledge of writing gradually...

version of Japanese called rōmaji (literally "Roman character"), and the other is via keyboard keys corresponding to the Japanese kana. Some systems may also...

romanization of Japanese is the use of Latin script to write the Japanese language. This method of writing is sometimes referred to in Japanese as rōmaji (ローマ字...

world Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan Japanese writing system, consisting...

w. Boyd's Syllabic Shorthand Japanese Braille – Japanese Pahawh Hmong – Hmong The following list contains writing systems that are in active use by a population...

In a featural writing system, the shapes of the symbols (such as letters) are not arbitrary but encode phonological features of the phonemes that they...

reconstruction from Old Japanese, or comparison with the Ryukyuan languages and Japanese dialects. The Chinese writing system was imported to Japan from Baekje around...

English, although vertical writing is still frequently used in Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Macau, and Taiwan. Chinese characters, Japanese kana, Vietnamese chữ...

of Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequently-derived...

not used in formal Japanese writing but frequently found in more casual writing, such as exclamation and question marks. Japanese can be written horizontally...

romanization (Japanese: ヘボン式ローマ字, Hepburn: Hebon-shiki rōmaji, lit. 'Hepburn-style Roman letters') is the main system of romanization for the Japanese language...

çiɾaɡana(ꜜ)]) is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana as well as kanji. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word hiragana...

Kana (仮名, Japanese pronunciation: [kana]) are syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae. In current usage, kana most commonly refers...

originated in Japanese mobile phone culture Japanese Symbols Retrieved 18 December 2022. "Standard Shime Saba (Pickled Mackerel) Recipe by cookpad.japan". Cookpad...

of Japanese, even though it is not intelligible to monolingual Japanese speakers. Modern Okinawan is not written frequently. When it is, the Japanese writing...

(片仮名、カタカナ, IPA: [katakaꜜna, kataꜜkana]) is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases...

Furigana (振り仮名, Japanese pronunciation: [ɸɯɾigaꜜna] or [ɸɯɾigana]) is a Japanese reading aid consisting of smaller kana (syllabic characters) printed either...

In Japanese, Kokuji (国字, "national characters") or Wasei kanji (和製漢字, "Japanese-made kanji") are kanji created in Japan rather than borrowed from China...

Writing is the act of creating a persistent representation of human language. A writing system uses a set of symbols and rules to encode aspects of spoken...

distinctly defined by Japanese kanji and Chinese writing systems. In the Japanese language, common characters are written in post-WWII Japan simplified forms...

Various Mongolian writing systems have been devised for the Mongolian language over the centuries, and from a variety of scripts. The oldest and native...

how writing systems were introduced to Okinawa Island. Modern scholars generally speculate that Zen Buddhist monks brought kana from mainland Japan to...

page or end of chapter as is the case in English writing. The Japanese name, komejirushi (Japanese: こめじるし; 米印, pronounced [komedʑiꜜɾɯɕi], lit. 'rice...

obsolete, and historical hiragana uses ゐ (historic Japanese wi, modern i) and ゑ (historic Japanese we, modern e), which are now only used in proper names...

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...

Cyrillic, as an aid to Japanese language learning in those languages or as a potential replacement for the current Japanese writing system. This can be done...

glyph system.[citation needed] Maya writing used logograms complemented with a set of syllabic glyphs, somewhat similar in function to modern Japanese writing...

In relation to the Japanese language and computers many adaptation issues arise, some unique to Japanese and others common to languages which have a very...

characters of the Japanese writing system and resembling minimalistic company logos. The heraldic badges worn by warriors in medieval Japan (mon) were forerunners...