片仮名
JapaneseEdit
EtymologyEdit
| Kanji in this term | ||
|---|---|---|
| 片 | 仮 | 名 |
| かた Grade: 6 |
か Grade: 5 |
な Grade: 1 |
| kun’yomi | ||
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 片假名 (kyūjitai) |
Compound of 片 (kata, “part”) + 仮名 (kana). 片 is in turn a cognate with 方 (kata).
PronunciationEdit
- (Tokyo) かたかな [kàtákáꜜnà] (Nakadaka – [3])[1][2][3]
- (Tokyo) かたかな [kàtáꜜkànà] (Nakadaka – [2])[1][3]
- IPA(key): [ka̠ta̠ka̠na̠]
NounEdit
- 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#Usage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
