Kana

E175376

Japanese syllabary Japanese writing system syllabary

Kana is the Japanese syllabic writing system comprising hiragana and katakana, used to represent native words, grammatical elements, and foreign terms.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Kana canonical	3
Japanese kana	1

Statements (43)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Japanese syllabary ⓘ Japanese syllabary ⓘ Japanese writing system ⓘ syllabary ⓘ
coexistsWith	Kanji ⓘ Latin alphabet ⓘ
derivedFrom	Chinese characters ⓘ
encodingStandard	Unicode ⓘ
hasPart	Hiragana ⓘ Katakana ⓘ
hasRomanization	romaji ⓘ
includesDiacritics	dakuten ⓘ handakuten ⓘ
includesVariantForms	small kana ⓘ
originatedIn	Japan ⓘ
represents	Japanese morae ⓘ
scriptFamily	Japanese scripts ⓘ
standardSetSize	46 basic characters per syllabary ⓘ
taughtBefore	Kanji ⓘ
timePeriodOfDevelopment	Heian period ⓘ surface form: early Heian period
usedFor	emphasis ⓘ emphasis in text ⓘ foreign loanwords ⓘ foreign loanwords ⓘ furigana ⓘ grammatical elements ⓘ grammatical particles ⓘ inflectional endings ⓘ native Japanese words ⓘ native Japanese words ⓘ okurigana ⓘ okurigana ⓘ onomatopoeia ⓘ onomatopoeia ⓘ scientific names ⓘ
usedIn	Japanese language education ⓘ modern Japanese orthography ⓘ
usedInLanguage	Japanese ⓘ
visualStyle	angular ⓘ cursive ⓘ
writingDirection	horizontal left-to-right ⓘ vertical top-to-bottom ⓘ
writingSystemType	syllabic ⓘ

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hira → relatedScriptCode → Kana ⓘ

Maki → writingSystem → Kana ⓘ

Amami language → hasWritingSystem → Kana ⓘ

this entity surface form: Japanese kana

Soka → hasWritingSystem → Kana ⓘ