Katakana

Katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one of the four Japanese writing systems. The others are hiragana, kanji and rōmaji. The word katakana means "side kana," as it is derived from the system of grammatical annotations to Japanese works in Chinese called "kambun".　These kana were written beside the Chinese characters and helped determine the meaning of phrases as if they were Japanese.
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KI
KU
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KO

SA
SHI
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TA
CHI
TSU
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TO

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NI
NU
NE
NO

HA
HI
FU
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HO

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MI
MU
ME
MO

YA
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YU
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YO

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GI
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GO

ZA
JI
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JI
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DO

BA
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BU
BE
BO

KYA
KYU
KYO

SHA
SHU
SHO

CHA
CHU
CHO

NYA
NYU
NYO

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HYU
HYO

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RYU
RYO

GYA
GYU
GYO

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JU
JO

BYA
BYU
BYO

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PYU
PYO


What is Japanese language and Kanji.

Kanji are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese logographic writing system along with hiragana , katakana , and the arabic numerals.
Japanese (Nihongo) is a language spoken by over 127 million people, mainly in Japan, but also by Japanese emigrant communities around the world. It is considered an agglutinative language and is distinguished by a complex system of honorifics reflecting the hierarchical nature of Japanese society, with verb forms and particular vocabulary which indicate the relative status of speaker and listener. The sound inventory of Japanese is relatively small, and it has a lexically-distinctive pitch accent system. Its recorded history goes back to the 8th century, when the three major works of Old Japanese were compiled.

The Japanese language is written with a combination of three different types of glyphs: Chinese characters (called kanji), and two syllabic scripts, hiragana and katakana. The Latin alphabet (called rōmaji) is also often used in modern Japanese, especially for things such as company names, advertising, and when inputting Japanese into a computer. Western style Arabic numerals are generally used for numbers, but traditional Chinese/Japanese numberings are also commonplace.

The Japanese vocabulary has been heavily influenced by loans from other languages. A vast number of words were borrowed from Chinese, or created on Chinese models, over a period of at least 1,500 years. Since the late 19th century, Japanese has borrowed a considerable number of words from Western languages, primarily English.
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