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  1. Kana - Wikipedia

    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.

  2. Kana | Japanese Writing System, Hiragana & Katakana | Britannica

    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.

  3. KANA Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    The meaning of KANA is a Japanese system of syllabic writing having characters that can be used exclusively for writing foreign words or in combination with kanji (as for indicating …

  4. Kana Definition - History of Japan Key Term | Fiveable

    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 …

  5. Kana Pro: Learn hiragana & katakana fast and easy

    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.

  6. Kana - Interactive Japanese

    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 …

  7. Kana - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    There are three types of kana: [2] Manyogana (万葉仮名) is the use of Chinese characters (or kanji) to represent each sound in spoken Japanese. Hiragana (ひらがな) is the script used to …