片仮名
Japanese
editEtymology
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| 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).
Pronunciation
edit- (Tokyo) かたかな [kàtákáꜜnà] (Nakadaka – [3])[1][2][3]
- (Tokyo) かたかな [kàtáꜜkànà] (Nakadaka – [2])[1][3]
- IPA(key): [ka̠ta̠ka̠na̠]
Noun
edit- 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
Derived terms
edit- 真片仮名 (shinkatakana)
See also
editReferences
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 片 read as かた
- Japanese terms spelled with 仮 read as か
- Japanese terms spelled with 名 read as な
- Japanese terms read with kun'yomi
- Japanese compound terms
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms with multiple readings
- Japanese terms spelled with sixth grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with fifth grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms with 3 kanji
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