Hiragana (平仮名, ひらがな, IPA: [çiɾaɡaꜜna, çiɾaɡana(ꜜ)]) is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana as well as kanji...
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Kana (redirect from Hiragana or Katakana)
phonological units, morae. In current usage, kana most commonly refers to hiragana and katakana. It can also refer to their ancestor magana (真仮名, lit. 'true...
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Hiragana is a Unicode block containing hiragana characters for the Japanese language. The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process...
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Katakana (section Hiragana and katakana)
Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word katakana...
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Hiragana Times (ひらがな タイムズ) is a magazine published in Japan; its audience is foreigners residing in Japan. The Hiragana Times is unique in that all the...
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Japanese writing system (section Hiragana)
characters, and syllabic kana. Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalized Japanese words and grammatical...
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Japanese language (section Hiragana)
Hiragana and katakana were first simplified from kanji, and hiragana, emerging somewhere around the 9th century, was mainly used by women. Hiragana was...
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The hiragana cities of Japan are municipalities whose names are written in hiragana rather than kanji as is traditional for Japanese place names. Many...
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Chōonpu (redirect from Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark)
used with hiragana, for example in the signs of ramen restaurants, which are normally written らーめん in hiragana. Usually, however, hiragana does not use...
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Hinatazaka46 (redirect from Hiragana Keyaki)
Akimoto. The group was established as a subgroup of Keyakizaka46 named Hiragana Keyakizaka46 on 30 November 2015, and was renamed and spun off into its...
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Language input keys (section Katakana/Hiragana/Rōmaji)
space bar; conversion (henkan 変換), on the right of the space bar; katakana/hiragana/rōmaji (カタカナ / ひらがな / ローマ字), on the right of the space bar, next to 変換...
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kanji characters: 日 (ni, written in hiragana as に), 本 (hon, written in hiragana as ほん) and 語 (go, written in hiragana as ご). Furigana may be added by character...
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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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forms of hiragana. Today, among the hiragana glyphs, those not used in school education since 1900 are called "hentaigana". Originally, hiragana had several...
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fasciculi V. (1712). He wrote that Japan had three syllabaries: firo-canna (hiragana) and catta-canna (katakana), both used by commons, and imatto-canna, used...
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COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA VOICED SOUND MARK U+309A ◌゚ COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK U+309B ゛ KATAKANA-HIRAGANA VOICED SOUND MARK...
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Hiragana Oshi (ひらがな推し) is a Japanese late night variety show starring Japanese idol group Hiragana Keyakizaka46. It was hosted by the comedy duo Audrey...
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schoolchildren using hiragana characters. It became a popular drawing during the Edo period. The word breaks down into seven hiragana characters: he (へ)...
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see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hentaigana. Ye (hiragana: 𛀁, katakana: エ, sometimes distinguished as 𛄡) is a Japanese mora or...
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normal writing. u Traditional kana う (Hiragana) 𛀋 (Hentaigana of う. Hiragana.) 𛀍 (Hentaigana of う. Hiragana.) ウ (Katakana) Constructed kana (A part...
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Ma (hiragana: ま, katakana: マ) is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. The hiragana is made in three strokes, while the katakana in...
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い (Hiragana) イ (Katakana) yi Traditional kana い (Hiragana) 𛀆 (Hentaigana of い. Hiragana.𛀆) イ (Katakana) Constructed kana い〻(い with dots. Hiragana.) 𛀆〻...
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み, in hiragana, or ミ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is written in two strokes, while the katakana...
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Ri (hiragana: り, katakana: リ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represent one mora. Both are written with two strokes and both represent the sound...
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for direct hiragana input. Since Japanese input requires switching between Roman and hiragana entry modes, and also conversion between hiragana and kanji...
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are still used, along with the subsequently-derived syllabic scripts of hiragana and katakana. The characters have Japanese pronunciations; most have two...
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Sa (hiragana: さ, katakana: サ) is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent [sa]. The shapes of these kana originate from...
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Japanese). Simplified versions of man'yōgana eventually gave rise to both the hiragana and katakana scripts, which are used in Modern Japanese. Scholars from...
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ゑ in hiragana, or ヱ in katakana, is an obsolete Japanese kana that is normally pronounced [e] in current-day Japanese. The combination of a W-column kana...
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る, in hiragana, or ル in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represent one mora. The hiragana is written in one stroke; the katakana in...
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