katakana

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Disappointed that while it has Japanese katakana like the original, it's not flipped horizontally like it should be.

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Quick take

A character thereof.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of katakana gathered in one view.

noun

A character thereof.

noun

Alternative letter-case form of katakana. [(uncountable) A Japanese syllabary used when writing words borrowed from foreign languages other than Chinese, specific names of plants and animals and other jargon, onomatopoeia, or to emphasize a word or phrase. Also used to write the Ainu language.]

noun

(uncountable) A Japanese syllabary used when writing words borrowed from foreign languages other than Chinese, specific names of plants and animals and other jargon, onomatopoeia, or to emphasize a word or phrase. Also used to write the Ainu language.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for katakana.

noun

A character thereof.

noun

Example sentences

Disappointed that while it has Japanese katakana like the original, it's not flipped horizontally like it should be.

Actually i currently try to learn some Kanji and grammar and did not yet learn a single katakana..

Learn hiragana and katakana while working through these - after the first few chapters, the roumaji goes away.

A single character of either hiragana or katakana represents only a single syllable of sound (such as か（ka),ぽ(po),し(shi),etc.).

Yes, it's surprising how many things you can figure out just by being able to read hiragana and katakana.

It's pretty normal for Japanese people to write English words in katakana, especially in things like games.

Hiragana and katakana are the first things you go over and it took a good part of the first year.

Hiragana and Katakana are easy alphabets to understand, kanji is a huge pain in the butt.

They get transliterated into the mora sounds (sometimes beyond easy recognition) and written in katakana.

Many program menus are perfectly readable by English speakers if you can read katakana.

Just curious, but why is the symbol for this a Japanese katakana チ (chi)?

Although, yes, formally the ー mostly appears in katakana and after a vowel, there's a lot of informal ways to use it.

Quote examples

Something written in katakana gives it an elements of "foreignness", a bit of semantic hinting about it's origin and how it should be considered.

My level would be "lower intermediate": I can write hiragana/katakana and know about 100+ kanjis.

I see hanzi/kanji, katakana, and zhuyin (but not hiragana) as all part of the same "alphabet" used to build up hanzi recursively.

It is, however, the katakana "chi" (チ), which corresponds to the name "Chicory".

Proper noun examples

Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and other assorted symbols) also has its own block outside of the Unified Han block.

Well, if you find Hiragana/Katakana it's Japanese, if you find Chữ Nôm it's Vietnamese.

Don't know yet when to learn Katakana, but currently i feel not like learning them as well, since i just learned the other alphabet and would like to have at least success doing something with that.