unpronounced). The kana for mu, む/ム, was originally used for the n sound as well, while ん was originally a hentaigana used for both n and mu. In the 1900...
11 KB (903 words) - 07:07, 8 September 2024
Kana (仮名, Japanese pronunciation: [kana]) are syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae. In current usage, kana most commonly refers...
31 KB (2,933 words) - 09:14, 4 October 2024
Hiragana (category Kana)
hiragana means "common" or "plain" kana (originally also "easy", as contrasted with kanji). Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems. With few exceptions...
52 KB (4,207 words) - 17:32, 4 October 2024
Katakana (redirect from ISO 15924:Kana)
kana in each system. Each kana represents either a vowel such as "a" (katakana ア); a consonant followed by a vowel such as "ka" (katakana カ); or "n"...
55 KB (4,642 words) - 12:30, 30 September 2024
sound n̪, n̼, n̥, ɳ, ɳ̊, ɲ, ɲ̊, ŋ, ŋ̊, ɴ, symbols representing other nasal consonants in the International Phonetic Alphabet N (kana), a Japanese kana Noun...
6 KB (861 words) - 14:14, 6 September 2024
letter in the Molodtsov alphabet Ꙩ ꙩ : Cyrillic letter Monocular O ん : N (kana) Խ խ : Armenian Khe Note that the Unicode names of the Latin letters are...
4 KB (344 words) - 21:47, 26 July 2024
Gojūon (category Kana)
after World War II, the kana for wi and we were replaced with i and e, the sounds they had merged with. The kana for moraic n (hiragana ん) is not part...
29 KB (2,544 words) - 15:22, 6 September 2024
A (hiragana: あ, katakana: ア) is a Japanese kana that represents the mora consisting of single vowel [a]. The hiragana character あ is based on the sōsho...
8 KB (446 words) - 22:39, 17 July 2024
writing system kana ligatures (Japanese: 合略仮名, Hepburn: gōryaku-gana) are ligatures in the kana writing system, both hiragana and katakana. Kana such as koto...
6 KB (214 words) - 18:30, 7 September 2024
support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Taiwanese kana (Min Nan Chinese: タイ𚿳ヲァヌ𚿳ギイ𚿰カア𚿰ビェン𚿳, tâi oân gí ká biêng, [tai˨˦ uan˨˦...
58 KB (1,173 words) - 11:33, 23 August 2024