kana

Speech parts

1. kana - Noun

2. Kana - Proper noun

Meaning

The hiragana and katakana syllabaries. These are made up of characters that represent individual syllables, which are are used to write Japanese words and particles. Kana are derived from kanji.

A hiragana or katakana character.

Kana

A Japanese female given name from Japanese

Kana (plural Kanas)

A surname.

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Both katakana and hiragana usually spell native long vowels with the addition of a second vowel kana, but katakana uses a vowel extender mark, called a chōonpu ("long vowel mark"), in foreign loanwords. Source: Internet

As in many syllabaries, however, vowel sequences and final consonants are written with separate glyphs, so that both atta and kaita are written with three kana: あった (a-t-ta) and かいた (ka-i-ta). Source: Internet

Chinese characters also came to be used to write Japanese words, resulting in the modern kana syllabaries. Source: Internet

Digraphs Syllables beginning with palatalized consonants are spelled with one of the seven consonantal kana from the i row followed by small ya, yu or yo. Source: Internet

Due to the limited number of phonemes in Japanese, as well as the relatively rigid syllable structure, the kana system is a very accurate representation of spoken Japanese. Source: Internet

Each kana character ( syllabogram ) corresponds to one sound in the Japanese language. Source: Internet

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