カナ
Meanings
Noun
1. 日本語において用いられる表音文字。音節文字。漢字よりも後にできた文字で、やまとことばの音節を表す。
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (11 in total)
katakana; angular Japanese syllabary used primarily for loanwords
the Japanese syllabary symbols
writing composed entirely of kana; kana text
mixed writing (kanji and kana)
old kana orthography (used before 1946 reform); historical kana orthography
new kana orthography (1946 reform, amended 1986); modern kana orthography
kana-kanji conversion (on a computer, etc.)
kana literature; works written in kana in the Heian period
book written entirely in kana
using more kana than characters
Examples (1 in total)
On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee.