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2. Kana - Wikipedia

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   Kana (仮名, Japanese pronunciation:) are syllabaries used to write Japanese 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 kana'), which were Chinese characters used phonetically to transcribe Japanese (e.g. man'yōgana); and hentaigana, which are historical variants of the now ...

3. We (kana) - Wikipedia

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   We (kana) 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 letter with " ゑ゙ " in hiragana was introduced to represent [ve] in the 19th and 20th centuries. [citation needed] It is presumed that 'ゑ' represented [we] ⓘ, and that ゑ ...

4. Transcription into Japanese - Wikipedia

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   Katakana, like hiragana, has a one-to-one correspondence between sounds and characters. Therefore, once the "Japanese sound" of a word is established, there is no ambiguity in its katakana spelling (unlike spelling in English, for example). A much less common form of transcription, Ateji, uses kanji characters for their phonetic values.

5. Gojūon - Wikipedia

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   Japanese writing. In the Japanese language, the gojūon (五十音, Japanese pronunciation: [ɡo (d)ʑɯꜜːoɴ], lit. "fifty sounds") is a traditional system ordering kana characters by their component phonemes, roughly analogous to alphabetical order. The "fifty" ( gojū) in its name refers to the 5×10 grid in which the characters are ...

6. A (kana) - Wikipedia

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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 style of kanji 安, while the katakana ア is from the radical of kanji 阿. In the modern Japanese system of alphabetical order, it occupies the first position of the alphabet, before い.

7. Gregg shorthand - Wikipedia

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   Gregg shorthand is a system of phonography, or a phonemic writing system, which means it records the sounds of the speaker, not the English spelling. For example, it uses the f stroke for the / f / sound in funnel, telephone, and laugh, and omits all silent letters. The system is written from left to right and the letters are joined.

8. U (kana) - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. U ( hiragana: う, katakana: ウ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. In the modern Japanese system of alphabetical order, they occupy the third place in the modern Gojūon (五十音) system of collating kana. In the Iroha, they occupied the 24th position, between む and ゐ. In the Gojūon chart (ordered ...

9. Wa (kana) - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. Wa ( hiragana: わ, katakana: ワ) is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. The combination of a W-column kana letter with わ゙ in hiragana was introduced to represent [va] in the 19th century and 20th century. It represents [wa] and has origins in the character 和. There is also a small ゎ/ヮ, that is used to ...