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)...

/wu/ 平仮名のわ行うの字源に対する新たな発見" 『世界の文字の図典普及版』2009年, 世界の文字研究会, 吉川弘文館 平仮名(大辞林特別ページ) 片仮名(大辞林特別ページ) Frellesvig, Bjarke (1995). A Case Study in Diachronic Phonology:...

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...

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...