片仮名

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片仮名

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Noun

片仮名 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai 片假名, hiragana かたかな, katakana カタカナ, romaji katakana)

1. A set of Japanese syllabary characters, secondary to hiragana, derived from portions of Chinese characters whose sounds approximate the Japanese sound being represented. Katakana is mostly used for transliteration from Western languages.

See also

• 平仮名
• 漢字
• ローマ字