Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The cursive and flowing variety of kana used in most modern Japanese texts especially to represent inflectional endings and particles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The cursive form of Japanese writing, said to have been introduced by a Buddhist priest named Kuhai about the middle of the ninth century.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The main
syllabary for the Japanese language, used to represent native Japanese words, includingparticles , and whenkanji is used, to represent verb and adjectiveendings . - noun A
letter thereof
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Modern Japanese uses four writing systems simultaneously: kanji (based on Chinese characters), two phonetic systems called hiragana and katakana, and the Roman alphabet (romaji).
MARKETING AESTHETICS BERND SCHMITT 1997
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Modern Japanese uses four writing systems simultaneously: kanji (based on Chinese characters), two phonetic systems called hiragana and katakana, and the Roman alphabet (romaji).
MARKETING AESTHETICS BERND SCHMITT 1997
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Modern Japanese uses four writing systems simultaneously: kanji (based on Chinese characters), two phonetic systems called hiragana and katakana, and the Roman alphabet (romaji).
MARKETING AESTHETICS BERND SCHMITT 1997
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The Japanese use only about 1,875 kanji characters, mostly for nouns, and write the rest of their language in phonetic characters known as hiragana and katakana.
Evil Avatar 2010
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(Separately, they are called hiragana and katakana).
MSDN Blogs 2009
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(Separately, they are called hiragana and katakana).
MSDN Blogs 2009
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Having prior knowledge such as hiragana & katakana first before jumping into one of their course will save you time.
Anime Nano! 2010
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"The Japanese therefore began to work on a phonetic syllabary now known as hiragana to make the Chinese kanji more adaptable as well as to express those matters uniquely Japanese for which there were no Chinese characters at all.
The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984
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'' hiragana '' and '' katakana '' Japanese characters more than one day per week came to 51%, up 6 points.
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And on the bright side at least it's not mixing kanji, hiragana, and katakana together as I've seen other artists do.
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