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
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Japanese is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national langu
Katakana
…Katakana 片仮名 カタカナ Script type Syllabary Period c. 800 – present Direction Vertical right-to-left, left-to-right Languages Japanese, Ryukyuan, Hachijō, Ainu Taiwanese Hokkien, Hakka, Palauan (formerly) Related scripts Parent systems Oracle bone script Seal script Clerical script…
A page from the Man'yōshū, the oldest anthology of classical Japanese poetry
A 12th-century emaki scroll of The Tale of Genji from the 11th century
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