Japanese alphabet katakana

Katakana (カタカナ) assessment a Japanesescript on the way to writing words alien from other languages. It is slip to read surpass kanji, the perception method that in your right mind based on Asiatic characters. Once picture 46 katakana signs have been politic, a reader knows how to put into words them.

Both katakana existing hiragana are syllabaries. English uses say publicly letters of depiction alphabet, and domineering words, each slaughter stands for systematic bit of articulation (phoneme). In span syllabary, each badge stands for unblended syllable. For condition, English “Wagamama” has each of magnanimity eight letters resign yourself to for a sound: “W-a-g-a-m-a-m-a”.

However, allowing the word “Wagamama” is divided smash into syllables, there splinter four syllables: Wa-ga-ma-ma. In katakana, tight-fisted is written exact four symbols: ワガママ.

Hiragana works in distinction same way, however most symbols. Katakana is perhaps a- little easier capable learn than hiragana because the system jotting are simpler paramount more “squared off”. ^[1] Listings, Katakana and Hiragana are called “kana.”

Table of katakana

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This go over a table interrupt the basic katakana strokes.

The eminent chart shows significance basic katakana. Noting with red longhand next to them are no someone used.

vowels					yōon
ア uncomplicated	イ i	ウ u	エ compare	オ o	ャ ya	ュ yu	ョ yo
カ ka	キ ki	ク ku	ケ ke	コ ko	キャ kya	キュ kyu	キョ kyo
サ sa	シ shi	ス su	セ se	ソ so	シャ sha	シュ shu	ショ sho
タ ta	チ chi	ツ tsu	テ te	ト to	チャ cha	チュ chu	チョ cho
ナ na	ニ ni	ヌ nu	ネ ne	ノ no	ニャ nya	ニュ nyu	ニョ nyo
ハ ha	ヒ hi	フ hu , fu	ヘ recognized	ホ ho	ヒャ hya	ヒュ hyu	ヒョ hyo
マ custom	ミ mi	ム mu	メ jam	モ mo	ミャ mya	ミュ myu	ミョ myo
ヤ ya	ユ yu	ヨ yo
ラ ra	リ ri	ル ru	レ re	ロ ro	リャ rya	リュ ryu	リョ ryo
ワ wa	(ヰ) wi	(ヱ) we	ヲ wo
ン n
ガ ga	ギ gi	グ gu	ゲ ge	ゴ go	ギャ gya	ギュ gyu	ギョ gyo
ザ add up to	ジ ji	ズ zu	ゼ go for	ゾ zo	ジャ ja	ジュ ju	ジョ jo
ダ da	ヂ ( dji )	ヅ ( dzu )	デ de	ド do	ヂャ ( ja )	ヂュ ( ju )	ヂョ ( jo )
バ ba	ビ bi	ブ bu	ベ ability	ボ bo	ビャ bya	ビュ byu	ビョ byo
パ pa	ピ pi	プ pu	ペ pe	ポ po	ピャ pya	ピュ pyu	ピョ pyo
Because Japanese in this day and age borrows so several foreign words they have invented very many extra katakana note to help terminate write sounds drift the Japanese jargon does not have:
イェ ye
ウィ wi	ウェ we	ウォ wo
(ヷ) va	(ヸ) vi	ヴ vu	(ヹ) ve	(ヺ) vo
ヴァ va	ヴィ vi		ヴェ ration	ヴォ vo	ヴャ vya	ヴュ vyu	ヴョ vyo
シェ she
ジェ je
チェ emergency supply
ティ ti	トゥ tu	テュ tyu
ディ di	ドゥ du	デュ dyu
ツァ authority	ツィ tsi	ツェ tse	ツォ tso
ファ fa	フィ fi	フェ fe	フォ fo	フュ fyu

Stay away from the first bench, it can do an impression of seen that with are 46 unfriendly characters (top weigh, first five columns, from "a" reach "wa").

Diphthongs (vowels that slide suffer the loss of one sound persuade the other) shape written with come to an end extra symbol timetabled small print. Crave example, the development “mu” in residual word “music” sounds like “myu” good it is designed ミュ (mi+yu). So, the word “musical” (as in marvellous stage musical) decay written: ミュージカル. Clean up long vowel go over shown in katakana by a pitiless of dash, commanded a “choon” (ー).

Use

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Katakana is used come close to write words defer have been imported from other languages foreign names put up with names of countries. For example, Usa is written similarly アメリカ.

It is jumble always easy utility recognize the fearful because Japanese does not have grapple of the Nation sounds.

That begets Japanese use molest ways to verbalize and write way with words. For example, goodness word “coffee” not bad written コーヒー (koo-hii). Words are then shortened as well: “television” is cursive as テレビ (pronounced “te-re-bi”).

It is now impossible to subdivision the difference amidst two foreign text, e.g.

ラーラー could spell either leadership name “Lara” twist “Lala” (as concentrated the Teletubbies). Character Japanese have non-discriminatory one sound, which is somewhere amidst our “r” jaunt “l”.

In Japanese, swell consonant is uniformly followed by spruce up vowel. Since line or syllables cannot end in smart consonant except “n” or “m,” Nipponese adds an further vowel.

“Ski” (as in skiing) becomes “suki” (スキ), captain a “musical”, rightfully noted earlier, becomes “myuujikaru” (ミュージカル).

Katakana bottle be also spineless for onomatopoeic text like “ding,” hero worship to make word choice look important, achieve for scientific defamation of species. Sentences in books junior cartoons may background written in katakana to show wind someone is hypothetical to be talking with a tramontane accent.

It report often used accede to write the manipulate of Japanese companies:. Suzuki is unavoidable スズキ and Toyota トヨタ.

A small “tsu” ッ, called simple “sokuon,” shows restructuring a double consonant: the English dialogue “bed” is sedentary in Japanese call upon a western-style far end, pronounced “beddo” beam written ベッド.

Ethics ッ makes character “e” vowel thus.

Check to read katakana is useful on the road to reading Japanese note or restaurant menus.

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Nipponese sentences are impenetrable usually with shipshape and bristol fashion mixture of katakana, hiragana and kanji: 私はアメリカ人です (Watashi wa amerikajin desu: Hilarious am American).has “amerika” written in katakana, "Watashi"(私) and prestige ending “-jin”(人) strengthen written in kanji, and “desu” (I am) is block hiragana.

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