0
Japanese has two Syllabaries: Katakana and Hiragana. Katakana is mainly used for foreign words, and Hiragana is mainly used for Japanese grammatical terms and other words that have no Chinese character.
Wiki User
∙ 10y ago
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
Is the Japanese Alphabet the same as the American alphabet?
There is no such thing as a Japanese Alphabet. Japanese uses 2 syllabaries (symbols that represent whole syllables) and about 2000 Chinese characters.
What is Japan's alphabet?
Japanese has no alphabet. It uses two syllabaries (Katakana, Hiragana), and about 2000 Chinese characters (Kanji).
Every English alphabet translated to Japanese alphabet?
There is only one English alphabet, and it cannot be translated into the Japanese alphabet because there is no such thing as a Japanese alphabet. Japanese uses syllabaries and picture-symbols in its writing.
What are the three alphabets of Japan?
Japanese has no alphabet. It uses two syllabaries (Katakana, Hiragana), and about 2000 Chinese characters (Kanji).
Do Japanese and Chinese people have the same alphabet?
There is no such thing as a Chinese or Japanese alphabet. Japanese uses 2 syllabaries (symbols that represent whole syllables) and about 2000 Chinese characters. Chinese uses tens of thousands of characters.
What is a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t you v w x y z in Japanese?
Japanese doesn't have letters. It uses a combination of two syllabaries and a set of about 2000 Chinese characters.
How long has japan used their alphabet?
Japanese has no alphabet. It uses two syllabaries (Katakana, Hiragana), and about 2000 Chinese characters (Kanji). Kanji were first introduced in the 4th Century. Hiragana was introduced in the 5th Century. Katagana was introduced aound the 8th Century
What are the kinds of alphabets?
There are complete alphabets (like Latin, Greek, or Cyrillic).There are abjads (alphabets with only consonants, such as Hebrew)There are abugidas, which are segmental writing systems in which consonant–vowel sequences are written as a unitThere are syllabaries (alphabet-like symbols that represent whole syllables, like Japanese katakana).
What is the 60th letter in the alphabet?
There is no alphabet with 60 letters, although some languages have abugidas and syllabaries with 60 or more characters.
What does the name yuna mean in Japanese?
"it means "lovely maiden" in Hirogana, and "moon maiden" in Katakana." First of all, hiragana and katakana are Japanese syllabaries, not languages themselves. 湯女 (yuna) is a noun for "woman who assists bathers at hot-spring resorts; bath house prostitute" in archaic Japanese. 湯 - hot water 女 - woman
Can you translate abcdefghijklomnopqrstuvwxyz in japanese?
That's not possible. The Japanese language doesn't have an alphabet, it uses something called a syllabary. Rather than representing specific sounds with letters, syllabaries represent syllables with characters called syllabograms. Moreover, there are a lot less possible sounds in the Japanese language than in languages that use the Latin alphabet, so many combinations are not possible. The only syllabograms that can be described using one letter are the following vowels: a (あ), e (え), i (い), o (お), and u (う); and n (ん).
Is there a Japanese alphabet that corresponds to the English alphabet?
There is no direct equivalent between the English alphabet and written Japanese, despite that awful kanji "alphabet" that has found its way onto tattoo flash sheets in recent years.Japanese has two phonetic syllabaries called kana, but the syllables do not correspond to English letters or sounds.
