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.

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

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

Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems ; they have corresponding character sets in which each kana, or character, represents one mora ( one sound in the Japanese language ).

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

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 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.

Hiragana was imported from Japan by Ganjin in 1265.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The Metropolitan Railway, for example, was active in building and promoting its own housing estates in the north-west of London, consisting mostly of detached houses on large plots, which it then marketed as " Metro-land ".

In the 18th century Muswell Hill was a scattered village consisting mainly of detached villas with large gardens.

* Bollmora in the northwest — consisting of apartment buildings of about 2-8 stories high, terraced houses and detached houses and some industrial areas.

* Trollbäcken in west — consisting mostly of detached houses.

* Old Tyresö ( Gamla Tyresö ) in east and south — in east consisting of detached, semi – detached, and terraced houses, and summer cottages, of which a large part are being converted to year-around living standard.

In order to facilitate the work of the Catholic missionaries in the evangelization in the Cagayan Valley, a royal decree was issued on May 1, 1856 that created the Province of Isabela consisting of the towns of Gamu, Old Angadanan ( now Alicia ), Bindang ( now Roxas ) and Camarag ( now Echague ), Carig ( now Santiago City ) and Palanan, all detached from Nueva Vizcaya ; while Cabagan and Tumauini were taken from the Cagayan province.

Inspired by the combination of gothic imagery and music, the members have been known, musically, for composing midtempo songs consisting of prominent guitar lines and contrasting dual female / male vocal harmonies to help create a melodic, detached sound.

Part was a detached part of the parish of Lewknor in Oxfordshire, part of a division of the parish known as Lewknor Uphill consisting of three detached parts.

Situated to the north of Cotwall End Valley, this private housing estate was developed by Coseley-based builders Joseph Webb in the mid to late 1950s, consisting of semi-detached and detached houses and bungalows with either two or three bedrooms.

Some rural districts were fragmented, consisting of a number of detached parts, such as Wigan Rural District.

Flemington and Kensington broke away from the City of Essendon in 1882 to form the Borough of Flemington and Kensington as the decade saw intensified residential development consisting of detached single-storey weatherboard homes and some brick semi-detached or attached single-storey homes on small allotments.

It is primarily a residential suburb, consisting of mostly detached housing.

Vaganza was a somewhat detached, ironic, self-aware, and decidedly excessive / theatrical art-rock-pop duo consisting of multi-instrumentalists David Longworth Wallingford and Quigley.

There is a Birmingham City electoral ward called Handsworth Wood comprising part of Handsworth and nearly all of Handsworth Wood made up of distinct cultures and built environments-the once salubrious Victorian suburb, now " inner-city " Handsworth, consisting of some of the finest Victorian houses in the city, increasingly being refurbished to complement the £ 9 million restoration of Handsworth Park, and Handsworth Wood dominated by characteristically suburban pre-war semi-detached and detached properties.

A two-storey detached house – often called a bungalow in Singapore – with European and Asian features, Sri Temasek has a symmetrical layout consisting of deep verandahs surrounding central living spaces.

Ammerud spans some of Norway's largest apartment blocks as well as a quiet, residential neighbourhood close to forrested Lillomarka consisting of single-family detached homes

Nine out of ten dwellings in Plumpton were fully detached houses, with the remainder consisting of attached houses such as townhouses and duplexes.

* Reorganized and redesignated 24 February 1942 as the 2d Battalion, 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment, consisting of HHC and Companies D, E, and F. Battalion Deployed detached from the Regiment to England.