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Hiragana vs. Historical kana orthography

is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana as well as kanji. The, or, refers to the in general use until orthographic reforms after World War II; the current orthography was adopted by Cabinet order in 1946.

Chōonpu

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.

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Dakuten and handakuten

The, colloquially, is a diacritic most often used in the Japanese kana syllabaries to indicate that the consonant of a syllable should be pronounced voiced, for instance, on sounds that have undergone rendaku (sequential voicing).

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Furigana

is a Japanese reading aid consisting of smaller kana (syllabic characters) printed either above or next to kanji (logographic characters) or other characters to indicate their pronunciation.

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Gojūon

In the Japanese language, the is a traditional system ordering kana characters by their component phonemes, roughly analogous to alphabetical order.

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Hentaigana

In the Japanese writing system, are variant forms of hiragana.

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Japanese language

is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.

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Japanese particles

Japanese particles, or, are suffixes or short words in Japanese grammar that immediately follow the modified noun, verb, adjective, or sentence.

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Kana

are syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae.

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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).

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Modern kana usage

is the present official kanazukai (system of spelling the Japanese syllabary).

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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.

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Nihon-shiki romanization

Nihon-shiki (lit, romanized as Nihonsiki in the system itself) is a romanization system for transliterating the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet.

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Rendaku

is a phenomenon in Japanese morphophonology that governs the voicing of the initial consonant of a non-initial portion of a compound or prefixed word.

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Sokuon

The is a Japanese symbol in the form of a small hiragana or katakana.

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Yōon

The, also written as yōon, is a feature of the Japanese language in which a mora is formed with an added sound, i.e., palatalized, or (more rarely in the modern language) with an added sound, i.e. labialized.

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