User:Mogigoma

Introduction[edit]

Kana: Category of syllabic Japanese characters.
- Hiragana: Characters used in native words.
- Katakana: Characters used in loan words and onomatopoeia.
- Okurigana: Hiragana suffixes to kanji that grammatically modify the word.
- Furigana: Superscripts applied to kanji that state its reading.
Kanji: Japanese logograms descending from Chinese characters.
- Kanji of the year
- Nanori: Character readings (found almost only in Japanese names.
Romanization of Japanese
- Hepburn romanization: Widest used system, formerly an ISO standard.
- Kunrei-shiki Rōmaji: New ISO standard, currently taught to Japanese elementary school students.
- Nihon-shiki Rōmaji: Little used system.
Diacritic: Small sign added to a letter to alter pronunciation or to distinguish between similar words.
- Dakuten
- Iteration mark
Japanese pitch accent
Japanese phonology
Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts
Stroke order
- CJK strokes