Hanamaruhanamaru
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かたかな

片仮名

katakana

katakana

JLPT
N2
Frequency
#33,127

In a sentence

ひらがなはhiraganaかけます書けますcan writeがbutかたかなは片仮名はkatakanaまだstill; (not) yetかけません書けませんcan't write

I can write hiragana, but I can't write katakana yet.

How it works

Two short statements joined by tone. First, も (also) means "katakana too" exists, and あるよ (there is) ends the thought with the casual よ (you know). Then の (of) links 外国がいこく (foreign) to 言葉ことば (words), and に (for) marks them as what katakana is used "for" — the verb 使うつかう (use) lands last, again with よ (you know).

Written with

片one-sided4 strokes仮sham6 strokes名name6 strokes