Japanese

<p>
	We are now ready to move on to <strong>katakana</strong>, which is used mainly for foreign words and names, and loanwords.
	For every <strong>hiragana</strong> character, there is an equivalent <strong>katakana</strong> character that is pronounced the same way. Therefore, anything 
	can technically be written in either <strong>kana</strong> and be understood. <strong>Katakana</strong> is used much less than
	<strong>hiragana</strong>; and unlike <strong>hiragana</strong>, <strong>katakana</strong> is not combined with <strong>kanji</strong> to make words.
</p>
<p>
	In this first lesson, you will learn to recognize the <strong>katakana</strong> characters listed in the table below. 
</p>

<table class="ui celled table">
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Katakana</th>
            <th>Romanization</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
		<tr data-item="27013"></tr>
		<tr data-item="27014"></tr>
		<tr data-item="27073"></tr>
		<tr data-item="27018"></tr>
		<tr data-item="27017"></tr>
		<tr data-item="27015"></tr>
		<tr data-item="27016"></tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

<p>
	There is one difference in <strong>katakana</strong>, which is using the <strong>ー</strong> dash to lengthen vowel sounds.
	For example, <strong>ヒー</strong> is transliterated to <strong>hii</strong>. 
</p>

<table class="ui celled fixed definition center aligned table">
	<thead>
		<tr>
			<th>Katakana</th>
			<th>a</th>
			<th>i</th>
			<th>u</th>
			<th>e</th>
			<th>o</th>
		</tr>
	</thead>
	<tbody>
		<tr>
			<td>-</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">ア</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">イ</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">ウ</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">エ</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">オ</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>k</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">カ</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">キ</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">ク</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">ケ</td>
			<td>コ</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>s</td>
			<td>サ</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">シ</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">ス</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">セ</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">ソ</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>t</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">タ</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">チ</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">ツ</td>
			<td>テ</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">ト</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>n</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">ナ</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">ニ</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">ヌ</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">ネ</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">ノ</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>h</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">ハ</td>
			<td>ヒ</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">フ</td>
			<td>ヘ</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">ホ</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>m</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">マ</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">ミ</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">ム</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">メ</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">モ</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>y</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">ヤ</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;"></td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">ユ</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;"></td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">ヨ</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>r</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">ラ</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">リ</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">ル</td>
			<td>レ</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">ロ</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>w</td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">ワ</td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
			<td style="color: #CCCCCC;">ヲ</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>n</td>
			<td colspan="5">ン</td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
</table>

Katakana 1

hiragana character

kanji

adnominal

adverb

auxiliary

conjunction

compound

i-adjective

interjection

noun

na-adjective

numeral

particle

case particle

conjunctive particle

discourse particle

prefix

pronoun

suffix

verb

sentence

hiragana writing

kanji writing

kanji component

reading vocabulary

katakana writing

katakana character

godan - group 1

itidan - group 2

group 3

transitive

intransitive

proper noun

discourse

phrase

expression

Word	bi
Meaning	ビ
Part of speech	katakana character
Pronunciation

Japanese

bi

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