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Japanese
Definitions
| For pronunciation and definitions of かたかな – see the following entry.
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- 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
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| (This term, かたかな (katakana), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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