片仮名

Japanese

Etymology

Kanji in this term
片	仮	名
かた Grade: 6	か Grade: 5	な Grade: 1

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) かたかな [kàtákáꜜnà] (Nakadaka – [3])^[1]^[2]^[3]
(Tokyo) かたかな [kàtáꜜkànà] (Nakadaka – [2])^[2]^[3]
IPA^(key): [ka̠ta̠ka̠na̠]

Noun

片仮名 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 片假名, hiragana かたかな, katakana カタカナ, rōmaji katakana)

A set of Japanese syllabary characters, secondary to hiragana, derived from portions of Chinese characters whose sounds approximate the Japanese sound being represented. Katakana is mostly used for transliteration from Western languages.

See also

References

↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
1 2 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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