Katakana meaning

kä'tä-kä'nä
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

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  • Make an effort to learn hiragana, katakana and kanji right from day one.

  • 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.

  • hiragana characters are positioned before katakana characters at the quaternary level, mimicking JIS sort order.

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