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, kanji and...

variant kana) or itaigana (異体仮名): obsolete variants of hiragana. Katakana (片仮名, fragmented kana) or gojūongana (五十音仮名, fifty-sound kana): a syllabary derived...

characters: hiragana (ひらがな or 平仮名, 'simple characters') and katakana (カタカナ or 片仮名, 'partial characters'). Latin script (rōmaji ローマ字) is also used in a limited...

character 事. The katakana koto is as a shorthand used in shinkatakana (真片仮名) (an obsolete writing style that exclusively used katakana instead of hiragana)...

音韻啓蒙 : 2巻. 上巻 綴字篇 音韻啓蒙 : 2巻. 上巻 音韻啓蒙 : 2巻. 上巻 日本新文典 音韻啓蒙 : 2巻. 上巻 綴字篇 有賀長隣. 片仮名元字. p. 4. 小学日本文典入門. 巻之1 綴字篇 綴字篇 国語仮字つかい 辞礎 小学日本文典入門. 巻之1 Yi (kana) Ye (kana)...

世界の文字研究会, 吉川弘文館 平仮名(大辞林特別ページ) 石塚秀雄 「『土佐日記』における仮名表記の特色:「ア行のエ」「ヤ行のエ」に注目して」 片仮名(大辞林特別ページ) Frellesvig, Bjarke (1995). A Case Study in Diachronic Phonology:...

we see also in 食べてみる (tabete miru, "try to eat [it] and see"). Katakana (片仮名) emerged around the 9th century, in the Heian period, when Buddhist monks...

using pieces of kanji to denote the sounds then developed into the katakana (片仮名, "partial/piece borrowed labels"). It is worth noting that the man'yōgana...