片仮名
Japanese
kanjitab
Definitions
- 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.
Etymology
Compound from Japanese 片 (one-sided, side, part, flat thing, one, one side, broad) + Japanese 仮名 (kana, the hiragana katakana syllabaries, Japanese phonetic syllabary characters, syllabic letter, a syllabary character).
Origin
Japanese
仮名
Gloss
kana, the hiragana katakana syllabaries, Japanese phonetic syllabary characters, syllabic letter, a syllabary character
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- katakana Finnish
- кана Russian
- катакана Russian
- katakana Portuguese
- - form of modern m Japanese
- ojp Japanese
- チンピラ Japanese
- 万葉仮名 Japanese
- 仮 Japanese
- 仮名 Japanese
- 仮名文 Japanese
- 借りる kariru Japanese
- 借る karu, “to borrow”, the cog Japanese
- 刀 Japanese
- 合略仮名 Japanese
- 変体仮名 Japanese
- 字 Japanese
- 帷子 Japanese
- 平仮名 Japanese
- 振り仮名 Japanese
- 片 Japanese
- 片利共生 Japanese
- 片眼鏡 Japanese
- 送り仮名 Japanese
- katakana Polish
- كاتاكانا Arabic
- katakana Serbo-Croatian
- คะตะกะนะ Thai
- 가따까나 Korean
- 가타카나 Korean
- 一等 Old Korean