かたかな

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of かたかな – see the following entry at 片仮名.
かたかな，カタカナ【片仮名】 [noun]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.
(This term, かたかな, is a hiragana spelling of 片仮名.)

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