{"id":364,"date":"2017-10-16T17:17:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T21:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/?p=364"},"modified":"2017-10-21T15:46:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T19:46:06","slug":"complete-katakana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/complete\/katakana","title":{"rendered":"Katakana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"basic-modal-content\"><center><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"stroke\" src=\"\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\" \/><audio id=\"clip\" src=\"\" controls=\"true\">Use the latest browsers for audio<\/audio><\/center><\/div>\n<p><audio id=\"clip_inline\" src=\"\"> <\/audio><\/p>\n<p><i>Katakana<\/i>, as already mentioned, is mainly used to represent words imported from other languages. We&#8217;ve already learned all the sounds when we learned Hiragana. All you need to learn is a different way of writing them.<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\">\n<caption>Katakana &#8211; Click for stroke order and sound<\/caption>\n<tr align=\"center\">\n<th>n<\/th>\n<th>w<\/th>\n<th>r<\/th>\n<th>y<\/th>\n<th>m<\/th>\n<th>h<\/th>\n<th>n<\/th>\n<th>t<\/th>\n<th>s<\/th>\n<th>k<\/th>\n<th>&nbsp;<\/th>\n<th>&nbsp;<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"center\">\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('n'); return false;\">\u30f3<\/a><br \/><span>(n)<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('wa'); return false;\">\u30ef<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('ra'); return false;\">\u30e9<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('ya'); return false;\">\u30e4<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('ma'); return false;\">\u30de<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('ha'); return false;\">\u30cf<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('na'); return false;\">\u30ca<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('ta'); return false;\">\u30bf<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('sa'); return false;\">\u30b5<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('ka'); return false;\">\u30ab<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('a'); return false;\">\u30a2<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<th>a<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"center\">\n<td class=\"empty\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td class=\"empty\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('ri'); return false;\">\u30ea<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"empty\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('mi'); return false;\">\u30df<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('hi'); return false;\">\u30d2<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('ni'); return false;\">\u30cb<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('chi'); return false;\">\u30c1<\/a><br \/><span>(chi)<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('shi'); return false;\">\u30b7<\/a><br \/><span>(shi)<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('ki'); return false;\">\u30ad<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('i'); return false;\">\u30a4<\/a><\/td>\n<th>i<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"center\">\n<td class=\"empty\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td class=\"empty\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('ru'); return false;\">\u30eb<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('yu'); return false;\">\u30e6<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('mu'); return false;\">\u30e0<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('fu'); return false;\">\u30d5<\/a><br \/><span>(fu)<\/span><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('nu'); return false;\">\u30cc<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('tsu'); return false;\">\u30c4<\/a><br \/>(tsu)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('su'); return false;\">\u30b9<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('ku'); return false;\">\u30af<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('u'); return false;\">\u30a6<\/a><\/td>\n<th>u<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"center\">\n<td class=\"empty\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td class=\"empty\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('re'); return false;\">\u30ec<\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"empty\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('me'); return false;\">\u30e1<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('he'); return false;\">\u30d8<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('ne'); return false;\">\u30cd<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('te'); return false;\">\u30c6<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('se'); return false;\">\u30bb<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('ke'); return false;\">\u30b1<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('e'); return false;\">\u30a8<\/a><\/td>\n<th>e<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"center\">\n<td class=\"empty\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('wo'); return false;\">\u30f2<\/a>*<br \/>(o)<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('ro'); return false;\">\u30ed<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('yo'); return false;\">\u30e8<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('mo'); return false;\">\u30e2<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('ho'); return false;\">\u30db<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('no'); return false;\">\u30ce<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('to'); return false;\">\u30c8<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('so'); return false;\">\u30bd<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('ko'); return false;\">\u30b3<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\" onClick=\"showModalK('o'); return false;\">\u30aa<\/a><\/td>\n<th>o<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>* = rarely used<\/p>\n<p>Due to the straight lines and relatively few strokes, there are many characters in Katakana that look very similar. In particular, \u300c\u30b7\u300d\u3001\u300c\u30c4\u300d \u300c\u30bd\u300d\u3001and \u300c\u30f3\u300d. You should pay careful attention to the stroke order and direction. You may also notice that the Katakana \u300c\u30d8\u300d is virtually identical to its Hiragana counterpart \u300c\u3078\u300d. They are in fact, written pretty much the same way. Below are handy PDFs for writing practice.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/pdf\/katakana_trace_sheet.pdf\">Katakana trace sheets<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japanese-lesson.com\/characters\/katakana\/katakana_writing.html\">japanese-lesson.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>English words in Japanese<\/h2>\n<p>Many words from foreign languages, particularly English, have become part of the Japanese language via Katakana throughout the years.  However, there are relatively few distinct sounds in Japanese and only five vowel sounds. As a result, these words usually don&#8217;t bear much resemblance to their original pronunciations. An important thing to remember is to stay true to the Japanese pronunciation and completely forget how it&#8217;s really supposed to be pronounced. To give you an idea, here is a short list of foreign words and their Japanese equivalents.<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"8\">\n<caption>Sample Katakana Words<\/caption>\n<tr>\n<th><b>English<\/b><\/th>\n<th><b>Japanese<\/b><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>America<\/td>\n<td>\u30a2\u30e1\u30ea\u30ab<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Russia<\/td>\n<td>\u30ed\u30b7\u30a2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>bus<\/td>\n<td>\u30d0\u30b9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>motorcycle<\/td>\n<td>\u30d0\u30a4\u30af<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>French fries<\/td>\n<td>\u30d5\u30e9\u30a4\u30c9\u30dd\u30c6\u30c8 (fried potato)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use the latest browsers for audio Katakana, as already mentioned, is mainly used to represent words imported from other languages. We&#8217;ve already learned all the sounds when we learned Hiragana. All you need to learn is a different way of writing them. Katakana &#8211; Click for stroke order and sound n w r y m &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/complete\/katakana\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Katakana&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"series":[7],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-systems-and-pronunciation","series-complete-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}