Real Kana It’s easy to use. Clickhiraganaand/orkatakanaand choose which characters you’d like to study. Then clickstudyand type each character’s rōmaji equivalent (e.g.‘a’). That’s it! Hoo LogicよりDownload on the App Store...
Those 46 syllables plus 4 rules give me the equivalent of the 107-syllable table. Katakana Looking at the Unicode charts and the Wikipedia pages for Katakana and Hiragana, I concluded that katakana was simpler overall. It's more geometric while hiragana is like cursive writing. I find cursi...
The neat thing about Kana is how closely it mimics the phonology (sound structure) of the spoken language. Because of this, we can tackle pronunciation and writing at the same time. In this section, you’ll learn about themora,the basis of both Hiragana and Katakana, and from there we’...
Two kinds ofkana, or syllabic writing, developed fromman’yō-gana.Katakana, which is angular in appearance, developed from the abbreviation of Chinese characters, andhiragana, rounded in appearance, by simplifying the grass (cursive) style of writing. Originally used asmnemonicsymbols for reading ...
All of these kana areconsideredobsolete, and exist only for use intranscribingolder documents. In cases where the "vu" hiragana is used, the still in use katakana "vu" is placed instead, and when formed into anothersyllable, a smallerkanavowel is paired with it. ...
Katakana: A Japanese alphabet used to spell/signify foreign words. It has the same sounds as hiragana, but uses a different spelling system. Kanji: A Japanese script written with Chinese characters, which helps to form all sorts of words within the Japanese language. Romaji: The English transcr...