Katakana definition

kätä-känä
A relatively angular kana used especially to write foreign words, onomatopoetic words, and the names of plants and animals in Japanese.
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The portion of the Japanese kana, or syllabary, whose characters are angular in form: it is used esp. for foreign words.
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Alternative spelling of katakana.
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Origin of katakana

  • Japanese kata one kana kana kana

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Katakana Sentence Examples

  • This Unicode text includes both IPA symbols and Japanese katakana.

  • Analysis showed that all the required sounds could be conveyed with 47 syllables, and having selected the ideographs that corresponded .to those sounds, they reduced them, first, to forms called hiragana, and, secondly, to still more simplified forms called katakana.

  • Embroidered belts, English to japanese name translations, Full black belt embroidery service including Japanese katakana, kanji and hiragana translations.

  • If you're planning on getting a Japanese tattoo, I would strongly recommend you at least study katakana first.

  • If you 're planning on getting a Japanese tattoo, I would strongly recommend you at least study katakana first.

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