• fifth row (お段, "row O"). Both represent [o]. お and オ originate, via man'yōgana, from the kanji 於. Scaled-down versions of the kana (ぉ, ォ) are used to express...
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  • Kana (仮名, Japanese pronunciation: [kana]) are syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae. In current usage, kana most commonly refers...
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  • When small and preceded by an -i kana, this kana represents a palatalization of the preceding consonant sound with the [o] vowel (see yōon). In mathematics...
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  • historical kana orthography (歴史的仮名遣い, rekishiteki kanazukai), or old orthography (旧仮名遣い, kyū kanazukai), refers to the kana orthography (正仮名遣い, sei kana-zukai)...
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  • is extinct in the modern spoken language. In Romaji, the kana is transliterated variably as ⟨o⟩ or ⟨wo⟩, with the former being faithful to standard pronunciation...
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  • Katakana (redirect from ISO 15924:Kana)
    "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived from components or fragments of more complex kanji. Katakana and hiragana are both kana systems...
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  • Hiragana (category Kana)
    hiragana means "common" or "plain" kana (originally also "easy", as contrasted with kanji). Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems. With few exceptions...
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    Kana Hanazawa (花澤 香菜, Hanazawa Kana, born February 25, 1989) is a Japanese actress and singer. A prolific voice performer in anime, she has amassed several...
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    support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Taiwanese kana (Min Nan Chinese: タイ𚿳ヲァヌ𚿳ギイ𚿰カア𚿰ビェン𚿳, tâi oân gí ká biêng, [tai˨˦ uan˨˦...
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  • a letter in the Greek alphabet O (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet O (kana), a romanization of the kana (お and オ) in Japanese writing ㅇ,...
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  • Kana: Little Sister (加奈~いもうと~, Kana~Imōto~), is a Japanese visual novel originally developed and released by D.O. in 1999. G-Collections [ja] translated...
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  • "wa" and "o" when used as grammatical particles. For the kana romanized sometimes as "e", see we (kana). Scaled-down versions of the kana (ぇ, ェ) are...
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  • a small ㇿ to represent a final r sound after an o sound (オㇿ or). The combination of an R-column kana letter with handakuten ゜ – ろ゚ in hiragana and ロ゚...
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  • Wi (hiragana: ゐ, katakana: ヰ) is an obsolete Japanese kana (Japanese phonetic characters, each of which represents one mora), which is normally pronounced...
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    Asuka (wrestler) (redirect from Kana-hime)
    (アスカ or 明日華, /ˈɑːskə/), as a member of Damage CTRL. Previously known as Kana (華名), she started her professional wrestling career in 2004 in the AtoZ promotion...
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  • A (hiragana: あ, katakana: ア) is a Japanese kana that represents the mora consisting of single vowel [a]. The hiragana character あ is based on the sōsho...
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  • の, in hiragana, and ノ, in katakana, are Japanese kana, both representing one mora. In the gojūon system of ordering of Japanese syllables, it occupies...
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  • Kana-Boon (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese rock band formed in 2008. They made their major debut with Ki/oon Music in 2013. Ever since, they've had...
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  • と, in hiragana, or ト in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both represent the sound [to], and when written with...
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  • Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. ん is the only kana that does not end in a vowel sound (although in certain cases the vowel ending of kana, such...
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  • writing system kana ligatures (Japanese: 合略仮名, Hepburn: gōryaku-gana) are ligatures in the kana writing system, both hiragana and katakana. Kana such as koto...
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  • Wāpuro rōmaji (ワープロローマ字), or kana spelling, is a style of romanization of Japanese originally devised for entering Japanese into word processors (ワードプロセッサー...
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    character"), and the other is via keyboard keys corresponding to the Japanese kana. Some systems may also work via a graphical user interface, or GUI, where...
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  • ほ, in hiragana, or ホ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both are made in four strokes and both represent [ho]...
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  • or メ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both versions of the kana are written in two strokes and represent [me]...
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  • Abdulkarim Abubakar Kana is a Nigerian Professor of Law from Nasarawa State University Keffi and former dean of the Faculty of law. He is the current Nasarawa...
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  • れ, in hiragana, or レ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is written in two strokes, while katakana...
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  • ね, in hiragana, or ネ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is made in two strokes, while the katakana...
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  • I (い in hiragana or イ in katakana) is one of the Japanese kana each of which represents one mora. い is based on the sōsho style of the kanji character...
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  • of Hentaigana. Wu (hiragana: 𛄟, katakana: 𛄢) is a hentaigana, a variant kana or Japanese syllable. It is presumed that 𛄟 would have represented /β̞u/...
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