片仮名
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Japanese
Etymology
| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 片 | 仮 | 名 |
| かた Grade: 6 |
か Grade: 5 |
な Grade: 1 |
| kun’yomi | ||
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 片假名 (kyūjitai) |
Compound of 片 (kata, “part”) + 仮名 (kana). 片 is in turn a cognate with 方 (kata).
Pronunciation
Noun
- Katakana, a set of Japanese syllabary characters, secondary to hiragana, derived from portions of Chinese characters whose sounds approximate the Japanese sound being represented. Chiefly thought of as being used for loanwords (cf. カタカナ語 (“loanword”, literally “katakana word”)), it has a number of other uses too, complementing hiragana; see
Katakana on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN