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Form of Japanese syllabic writing
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katakana
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
is a Japanese syllabary , one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana , kanji , and in some cases the Latin script (known as romaji ). The word katakana means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived from components ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from Japanese katakana , from kata "side" + kana "borrowed letter(s)."
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) A Japanese syllabary used when writing words borrowed from foreign languages other than Chinese, specific names of plants and animals and other jargon, or to emphasize a word or phrase. 2 A letter thereof.
Usage examples of katakana.
It was Japanese portable with a keyboard the length of a cricket bat, a complex mess of ASCII, kanji, katakana, hiragana and arcane function keys.
So they took to hiragana and katakana and, in the process, created the country's first true written literature, The Pillow Book of Seishonagon and the classic Genji Monogatari, both dating from the beginning of the eleventh century.
Each page is a grid, a table with hiragana or katakana or kanji in one box, a group of digits or Romanji in another box, and the pages all cross-referenced to other pages in a scheme only a cryptographer could love.