片仮名

Japanese

Kana	かたかなカタカナ
Kanji	片仮名

Etymology

Kanji in this term
片	仮	名
かた Grade: 6	か Grade: 5	な Grade: 1
kun’yomi	Irregular

Compound of 片 (kata, “part”) +‎ 仮名 (kana). 片 is in turn a cognate with 方 (kata).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) かたかな [kàtákáꜜnà] (Nakadaka – [3])[1][2][3]
(Tokyo) かたかな [kàtáꜜkànà] (Nakadaka – [2])[1][3]
IPA^(key): [ka̠ta̠ka̠na̠]

Noun

片仮名 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 片假名, hiragana かたかな, katakana カタカナ, rōmaji katakana)

Katakana, a set of Japanese syllabary characters, secondary to hiragana, derived from portions of Chinese characters whose sounds approximate the Japanese sound being represented. Katakana is mostly used for transliteration from Western languages.

See also

References

1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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