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1 History

Katakana were developed by students who used parts of man'yoganaMan'yogana is an ancient form of Japanese kana based on kanji (Chinese characters). It was first used in Nara-period Japan. The name man'yogana is derived from the Man'yoshu (Anthology of Myriad Leaves), a Japanese poetry anthology from the Nara period wr characters as shorthand when writing down words whose proper Chinese characters were unknown. For example, ka カ comes from the left side of ka 加 "increase". The figure below shows derivation of katakana from manyogana:


Up until a series of orthographic reforms immediately following World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough, katakana was used for okuriganaOkurigana (, literally "accompanying characters") are a special use of hiragana suffixes following kanji stems in Japanese written words. Generally used to inflect an adjective or verb, okurigana can indicate tense (past or present/future), affirmative/ne in official documents, and frequently in other contexts.

2 Katakana in Unicode

In UnicodeIn computing, Unicode is the international standard whose goal is to provide the means to encode the text of every document people want to store in computers. This includes all scripts still in active use today, many scripts known only by scholars, and sy, Katakana occupy code points U+30A0 to U+30FF [1]:


  0123456789ABCDEF
30A ゠ァアィイゥウェエォオカガキギク
30B グケゲコゴサザシジスズセゼソゾタ
30C ダチヂッツヅテデトドナニヌネノハ
30D バパヒビピフブプヘベペホボポマミ
30E ムメモャヤュユョヨラリルレロヮワ
30F ヰヱヲンヴヵヶヷヸヹヺ・ーヽヾヿ


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KatakanaKatakana (, literally: "fragmentary kana") are a Japanese syllabary, one of four Japanese writing systems (the others are hiragana, kanji and romaji). Katakana are characterized by squarish lines and are the simplest of the Japanese scripts. Katakana are  


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