Kana (仮名; Japanese pronunciation: [ka.na]) are syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae. In current usage, kana most commonly refers to hiragana [1] and katakana.

Kana, in the Japanese writing system, two parallel modern syllabaries (katakana and hiragana), each of which independently represents all the sounds of the Japanese language.

A kanji used this way as a phonogram is called a kana. Both hiragana and katakana developed from the ancient kana system (man'yōgana), a kind of phonetic character using kanji.

Kana refers to the two syllabaries used in the Japanese writing system: hiragana and katakana. These scripts were developed during the Heian period as a means to express the Japanese …

Kana refers to the two syllabic writing systems used in Japanese: Hiragana and Katakana. Kana Pro is a quiz type learning tool for memorizing the kana characters.

Each kana represents a syllable like "ka" or "ni". There are 46 different Kana, but each one has two different ways it can be written (if this seems confusing, consider that English has …

Tofugu’s Learn Kana Quiz This app is a companion to Tofugu’s Learn Hiragana Guide and Learn Katakana Guide. Use it to practice hiragana and katakana. If you haven’t learned kana yet, …

Kana (仮名) are a set of syllabic scripts used in the Japanese writing system. The term originally means “provisional” or “borrowed names.” In modern usage, kana are primarily divided into …

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