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Unusually, the name is written in a mixture of two Japanese scripts: Katakana ( ドラ ) and Hiragana ( えもん ).

Hiragana is used to write native words for which there are no kanji, including particles such as から kara " from ", and suffixes such as さん ~ san " Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms ." Likewise, hiragana is used to write words whose kanji form is obscure, not known to the writer or readers, or too formal for the writing purpose.

Hiragana is also used to give the pronunciation of kanji in a reading aid called furigana.

Nursery Rhyme Cards ) is a version of karuta made of famous Japanese nursery rhymes sang to music to help young children learn the Japanese writing system called Hiragana.

Hiragana is the more widely used script in Japan today, while katakana, meant for formal documents originally, is used similarly to italics in alphabetic scripts.

( Note that while these prefixes are almost always in Hiragana — that is, as お o-or ご go — the kanji 御 is used for both o and go prefixes in formal writing.

Shiatsu ( Kanji: 指圧 Hiragana: しあつ ) is Japanese for " finger pressure "; it is a type of alternative medicine consisting of finger and palm pressure, stretches, and other massage techniques.

Kegon ( Kanji: 華厳 Hiragana: けごん ) is the name of the Japanese transmission of the Huayan school of Chinese Buddhism.

Nippon ( Hiragana: にっぽん ) is a reading of kanji 日本 that refers to Japan.

In modern times, the role is also referred to as tsukibito ( Kanji: 付き人 Hiragana: つきびと literally, " attached person ").

On March 3, 2006 the village of Natashō, from Onyū District, was merged into Ōi, which is since written with Hiragana instead of Kanji.

Aiki-ken ( Kanji: 合気剣 Hiragana: あいきけん ) is the name given specifically to the set of Japanese sword techniques practiced according to the principles of aikido, taught first by Morihei Ueshiba ( aikido's founder ), then further developed by Morihiro Saito, one of Ueshiba's most prominent students.

No translation with Hiragana is extremely unhelpful for non-Japanese.

Ō ( Hiragana:, ) is the Japanese form of the Chinese surname Wang ( Kanji: ).

Hiragana was imported from Japan by Ganjin in 1265.

For a long time, the most esteemed calligrapher in Japan had been Wang Xizhi, a Chinese calligrapher in the 4th century but after the invention of Hiragana and Katakana, the Japanese unique syllabaries, the distinctive Japanese writing system developed and calligraphers produced styles intrinsic to Japan.

Sorakichi was born Koujiro Matsuda ( Kanji: 松田幸次郎, Hiragana: まつだ こうじろう ) in Japan.

Hiragana gave written expression to the spoken word and, with it, to the rise in Japan's famous vernacular literature, much of it written by court women who had not been trained in Chinese as had their male counterparts.

Hiragana gave written expression to the spoken word and, with it, to the rise in Japan's famous vernacular literature, much of it written by court women who had not been trained in Chinese as had their male counterparts.

These names either are Latin letters with diacritics ( ñ, é ) or are written in languages or scripts which do not use the Latin alphabet: Arabic, Hangul, Hiragana and Kanji for instance.

Japanese and Korean share the same ancient Chinese words ' 月曜日 ' ( Hiragana: げつようび, Hangul: 월요일 ) for Monday which means day of the moon.

The syllabary of Vai also been compared to Hiragana and Katakana scripts also syllabaries for Japanese language.

It uses the ASCII form for DNS lookups but can present the internationalized form to users who presumably prefer to read and write domain names in non-ASCII scripts such as Arabic or Hiragana.

Hiragana and Katagana to Polivanov cyrillization correspondence table, for single / modified kana.

This version produced Japanese language error messages and supported the Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana character sets for variable names and character strings.

** Hiragana, used, along with kanji, for native or naturalised Japanese words, and for grammatical elements

Hiragana consisting of connected strokes are replaced by symbols or Greek letters: for example, す ( su ) may be rendered as the section symbol.

This cryptographic concept has been used with Japanese Hiragana and the Germans in the later years of the First World War.

The Japanese language has a tripartite writing system using Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.

Uchi-deshi ( Kanji: Hiragana: うちでし lit.

Other terms include senshūsei ( 専修生 ; せんしゅうせい ) and kenshūsei ( Kanji: 研修生 Hiragana: けんしゅうせい " trainee "), although these terms are more general and do not necessarily indicate a live-in apprentice.

Japanese writing system | Japanese alphabet, including Hiragana, Katakana and " Imatto-canna ", a form of Hentaigana.

In answer to a New York Times query on what is fame ( `` Thoughts On Fame '', October 23, 1960 ), Carl said: `` Fame is a figment of a pigment.

There is plenty more to recommend Gorton, the facts of whose life are given in The Life And Times Of Samuel Gorton, by Adelos Gorton.

Mr. Sulzberger's successor as publisher is Mr. Orvil E. Dryfoos, who is president of the New York Times Co., and who has been with the Times since 1942.

Dr. Gillian Tett, a Cambridge University trained anthropologist who went on to become a senior editor at the Financial Times is one of the leaders in this use of anthropology.

On publication of the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to be given an obituary in the New York Times ; 6 August 1975 " Hercule Poirot is Dead ; Famed Belgian Detective ".

The series is named after a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, in 1882 after a match at The Oval in which Australia beat England on an English ground for the first time.

* Changing The Times, is an Alternate History Electronic Magazine written and maintained by alternate historians.

Johnson took to the Senate floor after the election demonstrated the schism in the country, giving a sensational speech headlined by the New York Times: "... I will not give up this government ... No ; I intend to stand by it ... and I invite every man who is a patriot to ... rally around the altar of our common country ... and swear by our God ... that the Constitution shall be saved, and the Union preserved.

Despite exceptions such as usage in The New York Times, the names of sports teams are usually treated as plurals even if the form of the name is singular.

* Times Square is a major commercial intersection in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets.

Times Square – iconified as " The Crossroads of the World " is the brightly illuminated hub of the Broadway theater district.

The northern triangle of Times Square is technically Duffy Square, dedicated in 1937 to Chaplain Francis P. Duffy of New York City's " Fighting 69th " Infantry Regiment ; a memorial to Duffy is located there, along with a statue of George M. Cohan.

* 1904 – Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.

She is also the author of articles that have been published in the New York Times and Newsweek.

Hesser applied for a buyout from the Times in late March 2008 and is no longer with the newspaper.

In his New York Times review of the 2009 Broadway production, Ben Brantley noted that " the expression that hovers over Trevor Nunn's revival ... feels dangerously close to a smirk ... It is a smirk shrouded in shadows.

The show was first announced in The New York Times on October 5, 1961: " For the winter of 1962, Laurents is nurturing another musical project, The Natives Are Restless.

Lerner wrote in his autobiography ( as quoted by The New York Times ): " All I can say is that if I had no flair for marriage, I also had no flair for bachelorhood.

Capp is also the subject of an upcoming WNET-TV American Masters documentary, The Life and Times of Al Capp, produced by his granddaughter, independent filmmaker Caitlin Manning.