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.

Hiragana katakana ~ gojūon bōdo kinō-tsuki ~

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.

( 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.

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.

In contrast to uchi-deshi, students who live outside are referred to as soto-deshi ( Kanji: Hiragana: そとでし literally " outside students ").

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.

* Ginsu knives have a Japanese-sounding name " Ginsu " ( Kanji Japanese: 銀簾, Hiragana: ぎんす ) but are made in America by Douglas Quikut

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

Hiragana consisting of detached elements are replaced by sequences of kana, Western letters, or symbols.

The Hiragana Times is unique in that all the articles are written in both English and Japanese, with no bias between the languages.

Japanese ( Romanized Hiragana and Romanized Katakana ), Korean ( Hangul 2-bul ) and Traditional Chinese are currently supported.

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

In the 9th century, Japanese developed their own writing systems called Kana ( Hiragana and Katakana ) which support Kanji script to suit Japanese language.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

* Shin ( Japanese name ) ( Katakana: シン, Hiragana: しん ), a Japanese given name

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

When it is necessary to distinguish between native Japanese kun ' yomi and Chinese-derived on ' yomi pronunciations, for example in Kanji dictionaries, the Japanese pronunciations are written in hiragana, and the Chinese ones are written in katakana.

The one general exception to this is modern Chinese place names, personal names, and ( occasionally ) food names — these will often be written with kanji, and katakana used for the furigana ; in more casual writing these are simply written in katakana, as borrowed words.

Because children learn hiragana before katakana, in books for very young children, there are hiragana furigana next to the katakana characters.

Chinese and Korean names are the most common examples: Chinese names are usually pronounced with Japanese readings and the pronunciation written in hiragana, while Korean names are usually pronounced with Korean readings and the pronunciation written in katakana.

The word katakana means " fragmentary kana ", as the katakana scripts are derived from components of more complex kanji.

Names of Japanese companies are also often written in katakana rather than the other systems.

There are two main systems of ordering katakana: the old-fashioned iroha ordering, and the more prevalent gojūon ordering.

There are three kana scripts: modern cursive hiragana (), modern angular katakana (), and the old syllabic use of kanji known as man ’ yōgana () that was ancestral to both.

Some North American fans, already attached to particular spellings, took great umbrage at Schodt's renditions, forgetting that in the original Japanese most character and mecha names are written in katakana, and that there were, therefore, no " official spellings.

The syllabary systems of Japanese ( hiragana and katakana ) are examples of almost perfectly shallow orthographies – the kana correspond with almost perfect consistency to the spoken syllables, although with a few exceptions where symbols reflect historical or morphophonemic features: notably the use of ぢ di and づ du ( rather than じ ji and ず zu, their pronunciation in standard Tokyo dialect ) when the character is a voicing of an underlying ち or つ ( see rendaku ), and the use of は, を, and へ to represent the sounds わ, お, and え, as relics of historical kana usage.

Kanji (; ) are the adopted logographic Chinese characters ( hanzi ) that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana ( ひらがな, ), katakana ( カタカナ, ), Hindu numerals, and the occasional use of the Latin alphabet.

Thus the two other writing systems, hiragana and katakana, referred to collectively as kana, are actually descended from kanji.

The two Japanese syllabaries are themselves adapted from the Grass Script versions of the Chinese characters ; the hiragana being direct adaptations and the katakana being adapted from the hiragana ( both katakana and hiragana are in everyday use alongside the Chinese characters known as kanji ; the kanji, being developed in parallel to the Chinese characters, have their own idiosyncracies, but Chinese and Japanese ideograms are largely comprehensible, even if their use in the languages are not the same.