かたかな

Japanese

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[noun] Katakana, a set of Japanese syllabary characters, secondary to hiragana, derived from portions of Chinese characters whose sounds approximate the Japanese sound being represented. Chiefly thought of as being used for loanwords (cf. カタカナ語 (“loanword”, literally “katakana word”)), it has a number of other uses too, complementing hiragana; see Katakana#Usage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Alternative spelling
カタカナ

(This term, かたかな, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

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