One might write the kanji for " blue ", but use katakana to write the pronunciation of the English word " blue "; this may be done, for example, in Japanese subtitles on foreign films, where it can help associate the written Japanese with the sounds actually being spoken by the actors, or it may be used in a translation of a work of fiction to enable the translator to preserve the original sound of a proper name ( such as " Firebolt " in the Harry Potter series ) in furigana, while simultaneously indicating its meaning with kanji.

The term manga ( kanji: ; hiragana: ; katakana: ; ; or ) is a Japanese word referring both to comics and cartooning.

Writing Japanese in kana ( hiragana and katakana ) demonstrates the moraic system of writing ; for example, the word Tomato is written in three letters ト マ ト which correspond to.

Photon inadvertently married her when he wrote the word " baka " in katakana on her forehead in black marker.

These days, the word is usually written using katakana script as Igirisu, although Eikoku is still common.

In the title of, and throughout the manga, Maekawa chose to spell the Japanese word for poverty, binbō, using katakana instead of the usual kanji for two reasons.

First, using katakana instead of a more traditional spelling gives a word a stronger emphasis ( similar to italicizing or bolding a word in English ).

Second, using katakana can indicate that a word's usage does not fall into the traditional meaning or sense of the word.

In the current edition of the Kōjien, if the historical orthography is different from the modern spelling, the old spelling is printed in tiny katakana between the modern kana and kanji transcriptions of the word.

Other examples of words which have become unacceptable include the replacement of the word hyakushō ( 百姓 ) for farmer with nōka ( 農家 ), or the replacement of the word shina ( 支那 ) for China written in kanji with the version written in katakana ( シナ ) or with the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese name for China, Chūgoku ( 中国 ).

Imatto-canna was probably his transliteration of the word yamato-gana, which actually means kana in general, both hiragana and katakana.

In accordance with widespread practice, the word is generally written in katakana when used in its slang sense, and in kanji when used of enemas in the medical sense.

Ateji today are used conventionally for certain words, such as 寿司, though these words may be written in hiragana ( especially for native words – すし is also found for sushi ), or katakana ( especially for borrowed words ), with preference depending on the particular word, context, and choice of the writer.

For example, kōhii, the Japanese word for " coffee ", is generally written using the katakana コーヒー, but on the sign for coffee shops and on their menus, it is often written with the ateji 珈琲.

Conversely, tabako, the Japanese word for " tobacco ", is generally written as たばこ or タバコ ( in hiragana – despite being a loanword – or katakana ), even in signs, and rarely written as with the ateji 煙草.

In some rare cases, an individual kanji has a loan word reading – that is, a character is given a new reading by borrowing a foreign word – though most often these words are written in katakana.

Note that while kun ' yomi are generally written as hiragana when writing out the word in kana instead of kanji ( because native Japanese ), these gairago " kun ' yomi " are generally written as katakana ( because a foreign borrowing ).

* For example, under the definition for オフ ・ シーズン ( off-season ), a katakana word borrowed from English:

The mark is stylized katakana syllable te ( テ ), from the word teishin ( 逓信 communications ).

The word means it won't boil away easily, nothing else.

The word `` binomial '' means `` of two names '' or `` of two terms '', and both usages apply in our work: the first to the names of the two outcomes of a binomial trial, and the second to the terms P and Af that represent the probabilities of `` success '' and `` failure ''.

If the word deliberate means anything, both of them certainly deliberately destroyed themselves.

by means of an origin statement which refers to an actual address, the corresponding index word will be reserved.

You may be sure he marries her in the end and has a fine old knockdown fight with the brother, and that there are plenty of minor scraps along the way to ensure that you understand what the word Donnybrook means.

In the Ancient Macedonian language ( pella ) means stone, and some toponyms are derived from this word: ( Pella: capital of Ancient Macedonia ), ( Pellini-Pallini ).

" Without a clear Sinhala connection, they suggest one from the Tamil language instead: anai-kondra ( anaik-konda ), meaning " which killed an elephant .” Per National Geographic, the word anaconda comes from the Tamil word anaikolra, which means elephant killer.

In Arabic, " A " (), " B " (), "" (), " D " () make the word " abjad " which means " alphabet ".

The word used in the Arabic language for allegiance is bay ' at ( Arabic: بيعة ), which means " taking hand ".

They named the element " astatine ", a name coming from the great instability of the synthesized matter ( the source Greek word αστατος ( astatos ) means " unstable ").

The term Rococo was derived from the French word " rocaille ", which means pebbles and refers to the stones and shells used to decorate the interiors of caves.

The word art is derived from the Latin " ars ", which, although literally defined means, " skill method " or " technique ", holds a connotation of beauty.

The French word artiste ( which in French, simply means " artist ") has been imported into the English language where it means a performer ( frequently in Music Hall or Vaudeville ).

The word Anglican originates in ecclesia anglicana, a medieval Latin phrase dating to at least 1246 that means the English Church.

In Swahili, the more naturalized word Marekani means specifically the United States, and Wamarekani are U. S. nationals, whereas the international form Amerika refers to the continent, and Waamerika are the inhabitants thereof.

The word is originally Greek () and means " those hidden away ".

But this extremely ingenious theory would at most explain only the mystic word Abracadabra, whose connection with Abrasax is by no means certain.

Their most widely known ethnonym is derived from the word ainu, which means " human " ( particularly as opposed to kamui, divine beings ), basically neither ethnicity nor the name of a race, in the Hokkaidō dialects of the Ainu language ; Emishi ( Ebisu ) and Ezo ( Yezo ) ( both ) are Japanese terms, which are believed to derive from another word for " human ", which otherwise survived in Sakhalin Ainu as enciw or enju.

The word acropolis literally in Greek means " city on the extremity " and though associated primarily with the Greek cities Athens, Argos, Thebes, and Corinth ( with its Acrocorinth ), may be applied generically to all such citadels, including Rome, Jerusalem, Celtic Bratislava, many in Asia Minor, or even Castle Rock in Edinburgh.

The word ' Ānanda ' means ' bliss ' in Pali, Sanskrit as well as other Indian languages.

The word " democracy " ( Greek: δημοκρατία ) combines the elements dêmos ( δῆμος, which means " people ") and krátos ( κράτος, which means " force " or " power ").

Cromartyshire's borders, a particularly fragmentary example, were achieved as late as 1685, although at that time the word " county " was not applied to the sheriffdom.

Occasionally, full-length texts are found, but they are usually fragmentary, sometimes consisting of only a word or two, and they are encoded in symbolic script, which may change mysteriously and often disappears completely once it has been transcribed.

It is more fragmentary, and its main difference is that the oath-takers are promised well-being in case they keep their word, as well as being threatened by extinction should they break it.