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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/eribosot/statuses/113089570980963392">eribosot (eribosot@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 14:50:36 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@eribosot" title="eribosot@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/91375-48-20230124033709.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="eribosot" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">eribosot</a><div><a href="https://gnusocial.net/notice/18647240" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p><a href="https://gnusocial.net/lxo">@lxo</a> "Katakana is used for words brought in from other languages" is an oversimplification. </p><p>One, may loanwords (especially from Chinese) are rendered in kanji. </p><p>Two, many non-loanwords are written in katakana. For example, animal and plant species, as well as sound effects (onomatopeia). Katakana is also used to make a piece of text stand out, much like Western text would make text italic. See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana#Usage" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana#Usage</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3622891#notice-7112274">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-09-07T14:50:36+09:00" title="Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 14:50:36 JST">about 6 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@eribosot/113089570980963392" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@eribosot/113089570980963392">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.</div><h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana#Usage">Katakana</a></h5><div></div></header><div>Katakana (片仮名、カタカナ, IPA: [katakaꜜna, kataꜜkana]) is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji).
The word katakana means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived from components or fragments of more complex kanji. Katakana and hiragana are both kana systems. With one or two minor exceptions, each syllable (strictly mora) in the Japanese language is represented by one character or kana in each system. Each kana represents either a vowel such as "a" (katakana ア); a consonant followed by a vowel such as "ka" (katakana カ); or "n" (katakana ン), a nasal sonorant which, depending on the context, sounds like English m, n or ng ([ŋ]) or like the nasal vowels...</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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eribosot (eribosot@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 14:50:36 JSTeribosot
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@lxo "Katakana is used for words brought in from other languages" is an oversimplification.
One, may loanwords (especially from Chinese) are rendered in kanji.
Two, many non-loanwords are written in katakana. For example, animal and plant species, as well as sound effects (onomatopeia). Katakana is also used to make a piece of text stand out, much like Western text would make text italic. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana#Usage
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  Katakana (片仮名、カタカナ, IPA: [katakaꜜna, kataꜜkana]) is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word katakana means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived from components or fragments of more complex kanji. Katakana and hiragana are both kana systems. With one or two minor exceptions, each syllable (strictly mora) in the Japanese language is represented by one character or kana in each system. Each kana represents either a vowel such as "a" (katakana ア); a consonant followed by a vowel such as "ka" (katakana カ); or "n" (katakana ン), a nasal sonorant which, depending on the context, sounds like English m, n or ng ([ŋ]) or like the nasal vowels...

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