Katakana
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Katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script.
Collection of poems by priest Myōe, 1248
In this travel warning, the kanji for "fog" (霧) has been written in katakana (キリ) to make it more immediately readable.
A page of the Meiji Constitution written exclusively with kyūjitai and katakana
Japanese katakana in a 1873 textbook
Japanese writing system
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The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters; and phonographic kana, which evolved from cursives/components of Chinese characters. M
Katakana
…Katakana (片仮名, カタカナ; IPA: ) is a 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 means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters…
Japanese novel using kanji kana majiri bun (text with both kanji and kana), the most general orthography for modern Japanese. Ruby characters (or furigana) are also used to transcribe kanji words (in modern publications these would generally be omitted for well-known kanji). The text is in the traditional tategaki ("vertical writing") style; it is read down the columns and from right to left, like traditional Chinese. Published in 1908.
Yokogaki