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Chōonpu, the Glossary

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The, also known as,,, or Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark by the Unicode Consortium, is a Japanese symbol that indicates a, or a long vowel of two morae in length.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 30 relations: Ainu language, Big5, East Asian typography, Extended Unix Code, GB 18030, General American English, Halfwidth and fullwidth forms, Hiragana, Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set, Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts, International Components for Unicode, Japanese Braille, JIS X 0208, Kana, Kanji, Katakana, KPS 9566, List of Japanese typographic symbols, Mora (linguistics), Okinawan scripts, R-colored vowel, Ramen, Received Pronunciation, Romanization of Japanese, Sakhalin, Shift JIS, Sokuon, Unicode, Vowel length, WHATWG.

  2. Japanese phonology
  3. Japanese writing system terms
  4. Kana

Ainu language

Ainu (アイヌ・イタㇰ), or more precisely Hokkaido Ainu (北海道アイヌ語), is a language spoken by a few elderly members of the Ainu people on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.

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Big5

Big-5 or Big5 (t) is a Chinese character encoding method used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau for traditional Chinese characters.

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East Asian typography

East Asian typography is the application of typography to the writing systems used for the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese languages.

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Extended Unix Code

Extended Unix Code (EUC) is a multibyte character encoding system used primarily for Japanese, Korean, and simplified Chinese (characters).

See Chōonpu and Extended Unix Code

GB 18030

GB 18030 is a Chinese government standard, described as Information Technology — Chinese coded character set and defines the required language and character support necessary for software in China.

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General American English

General American English, known in linguistics simply as General American (abbreviated GA or GenAm), is the umbrella accent of American English spoken by a majority of Americans, encompassing a continuum rather than a single unified accent.

See Chōonpu and General American English

Halfwidth and fullwidth forms

In CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) computing, graphic characters are traditionally classed into fullwidth and halfwidth characters. Chōonpu and halfwidth and fullwidth forms are kana.

See Chōonpu and Halfwidth and fullwidth forms

Hiragana

is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana as well as kanji. Chōonpu and Hiragana are Japanese writing system terms and kana.

See Chōonpu and Hiragana

Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set

The Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (香港增補字符集; commonly abbreviated to HKSCS) is a set of Chinese characters – 4,702 in total in the initial release—used in Cantonese, as well as when writing the names of some places in Hong Kong (whether in written Cantonese or standard written Chinese sentences).

See Chōonpu and Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set

Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts

Many East Asian scripts can be written horizontally or vertically.

See Chōonpu and Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts

International Components for Unicode

International Components for Unicode (ICU) is an open-source project of mature C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode support, software internationalization, and software globalization.

See Chōonpu and International Components for Unicode

Japanese Braille

Japanese Braille is the braille script of the Japanese language.

See Chōonpu and Japanese Braille

JIS X 0208

JIS X 0208 is a 2-byte character set specified as a Japanese Industrial Standard, containing 6879 graphic characters suitable for writing text, place names, personal names, and so forth in the Japanese language.

See Chōonpu and JIS X 0208

Kana

are syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae. Chōonpu and Kana are Japanese writing system terms.

See Chōonpu and Kana

Kanji

are the logographic Chinese characters adapted from the Chinese script used in the writing of Japanese. Chōonpu and Kanji are Japanese writing system terms.

See Chōonpu and Kanji

Katakana

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). Chōonpu and Katakana are Japanese writing system terms and kana.

See Chōonpu and Katakana

KPS 9566

KPS 9566 ("DPRK Standard Korean Graphic Character Set for Information Interchange") is a North Korean standard specifying a character encoding for the Chosŏn'gŭl (Hangul) writing system used for the Korean language.

See Chōonpu and KPS 9566

List of Japanese typographic symbols

This article lists Japanese typographic symbols that are not included in kana or kanji groupings.

See Chōonpu and List of Japanese typographic symbols

Mora (linguistics)

A mora (plural morae or moras; often symbolized μ) is a basic timing unit in the phonology of some spoken languages, equal to or shorter than a syllable.

See Chōonpu and Mora (linguistics)

Okinawan scripts

Okinawan, spoken in Okinawa Island, was once the official language of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

See Chōonpu and Okinawan scripts

R-colored vowel

An r-colored or rhotic vowel (also called a retroflex vowel, vocalic r, or a rhotacized vowel) is a vowel that is modified in a way that results in a lowering in frequency of the third formant.

See Chōonpu and R-colored vowel

Ramen

is a Japanese noodle dish.

See Chōonpu and Ramen

Received Pronunciation

Received Pronunciation (RP) is the accent traditionally regarded as the standard and most prestigious form of spoken British English.

See Chōonpu and Received Pronunciation

Romanization of Japanese

The romanization of Japanese is the use of Latin script to write the Japanese language.

See Chōonpu and Romanization of Japanese

Sakhalin

Sakhalin (p) is an island in Northeast Asia.

See Chōonpu and Sakhalin

Shift JIS

Shift JIS (also SJIS, MIME name Shift_JIS, known as PCK in Solaris contexts) is a character encoding for the Japanese language, originally developed by the Japanese company ASCII Corporation in conjunction with Microsoft and standardized as JIS X 0208 Appendix 1.

See Chōonpu and Shift JIS

Sokuon

The is a Japanese symbol in the form of a small hiragana or katakana. Chōonpu and Sokuon are Japanese phonology, Japanese writing system terms and kana.

See Chōonpu and Sokuon

Unicode

Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized.

See Chōonpu and Unicode

Vowel length

In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived length of a vowel sound: the corresponding physical measurement is duration.

See Chōonpu and Vowel length

WHATWG

The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) is a community of people interested in evolving HTML and related technologies.

See Chōonpu and WHATWG

See also

Japanese phonology

Japanese writing system terms

Kana

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chōonpu

Also known as Bōsen, Cho-on, Choon, Choonpu, Chouon, Chouonpu, Chō-onpu, Chōon, Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark, .