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Script used to transcribe foreign words into Japanese
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katakana
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Katakana is a Unicode block containing katakana characters for the Japanese and Ainu languages.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from Japanese katakana , from kata "side" + kana "borrowed letter(s)."
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.