片假名

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Chinese

a slice; piece; flake
a slice; piece; flake; thin; slice; disc; sheet
 
 pseudonym; false or fictitious name; to do something under a false premise
trad. (片假名) 片 假名
simp. #(片假名) 片 假名

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 片(かた)仮(か)名(な) (katakana).

Pronunciation

Noun

片假名

  1. katakana

See also

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of 片假名 – see the following entry.
【片仮名かたかな】
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
Alternative spelling
カタカナ
(This term, 片假名, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)
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