Questions tagged [kana]
かな. Covers both Japanese syllabaries, hiragana (ひらがな) and katakana (カタカナ).
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If katakana "ヘ" originated from part of the Kanji "部", why isn't it "⻏" instead?
[First post, please be gentle if this is a bad question]
As far as my knowledge, katakana is evolved from picking a part out of kanji.
However, I can't seem to understand how the kana "ヘ" ...
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Is there an "opposite"/"inverse" of 当て字・熟字訓?
当て字 is using the reading of kanji instead of its meaning; it is the reading applied to the kanji. I'm wondering if there is a word for the opposite/inverse: having the kanji applied to a reading.
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Is there a way to convert any English word to Japanese Kana？
Recently, I've been dealing with Japanese grapheme-to-phonneme conversion. But sometimes, there are plain English words in the text. So I wonder is there a way to convert these English words into ...
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Grammatical changes due to 歷史假名遣 use?
basically, I am wondering to what extent use of 歷史假名遣 before 1946 would influence grammatical forms in texts from the period between roughly 1900 to 1946. As I understand it, most 歷史假名遣 pertains to ...
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Small letters in Morse and telephony alphabet
I've read many pictures on Bing about the Japanese Morse Code and the Radiotelephony Alphabet, but none of them seem to mention small letters.
Is there a way to distinguish between small letters and ...
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What does this 件 mean at the end of this sentence?
I saw this on a youtube comment:
アメリカが正義を騙る度に邪悪さが鮮明に浮かび上がる件。
I think it means something to the effect of:
Every time America pretends to be about justice, its evil clearly emerges.
But I translated ...
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Popular "random" strings
Some "random" letter/numbers strings, like bxdrpcqazwsui1, gives a whole bunch of Japanese results if typed on Bing search engine.
I don't know why these strings are related to Japanese, and ...
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What does this double entendre じゃなかったらいいのかよ mean?
「テレビ番組を勝手にアップロードするのは違法だからな」
「10年以下の懲役か1000万円以下の罰金か、その両方だ」
Teacher talking to 3 students:
It's illegal to upload TV programs without permission.
You can get up to 10 years of hard labor... ...10 ...
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What fraction of Japanese words contain digraphs?
I'm curious as to what the percentage of native Japanese words that contain digraphs, or to put it another way, the average number of digraphs (or individual kana) in a Japanese word would be. I'm a ...
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Why are there no unique voiced kana?
If one were to look at the 万葉仮名 article on Wikipedia, they would find that no specific marks were added to represent the bunch, that is, the ザダガバ 行, with there having been different representations ...
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Is there a character that looks like "ot," or is it a different language? [closed]
I'm playing a game and don't recognise this character. It looks like an "ot" or "of" to me, but that might just be the font. I can only read the following: どんな夢も[ ]うんだって
Can ...
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Differences between い and り
I am learning kana and have some problems with similar construction. I found an excellent source (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TohUrbpdYJY) where Yuko sensei described a left-start and top-start ...
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What is うれション a portmanteau of?
I recently came across the phrase うれション, referring to when a dog accidentally urinates out of excitement. Fairly obviously the first part is derived from 嬉しい, but what else comes together to form ...
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Was the writing system used in the Empire of Japan (大日本帝国) called 真片仮名?
So, today I encountered the claim on Wikipedia
Shinkatakana (真片仮名, mana and katakana): mixed script including only kanji and katakana.
Wikipedia doesn't list a source for this claim.
This sounds to ...
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What is the correct tense for を生み?
一つの時代の積み重ねが新たな伝説を生み、ここにまた一人のヒーローが誕生した。ロックマン (source)
Here are two translations I have:
The culmination of one era gives birth to a new legend, and here again another hero is born.
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