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Phonetic symbols representing Japanese syllables based on Chinese writing
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An original alphabet created in Japan before contact with China
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The name of the ideographic writing system adopted from China in Japan
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A new form of poetry developed in Japan
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Detailed explanation-1: -Kana is a general term for the syllabic Japanese scripts hiragana () and katakana () as well as the old system known as manyogana. These were developed from the logographic characters of Chinese origin, known in Japan as Kanji (; Chinese pronunciation “hànzì"), as an alternative and adjunct alphabet.
Detailed explanation-2: -When you see Kana at the end of a sentence, it is essentially inferring the English equivalent of “I wonder.” It’s a relatively casual expression, and used quite often in conversation. Instead of just asking the question, it’s a way of couching it a bit, to encourage the listener to “wonder” as well.
Detailed explanation-3: -Kanji (, pronounced [kaɲdʑi] ( listen)) are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese script, and used in the writing of Japanese.
Detailed explanation-4: -Kana () in Japanese means “syllabary”, therefore a writing system of whose symbols or characters have a purely phonetic nature, and each of them represents a syllable. Kana in Japanese has many variations (such as hentaigana, – lit.
Detailed explanation-5: -Japanese consists of two scripts (referred to as kana) called Hiragana and Katakana, which are two versions of the same set of sounds in the language. Hiragana and Katakana consist of a little less than 50 “letters”, which are actually simplified Chinese characters adopted to form a phonetic script.