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かたかな

片仮名

N2

katakana

katakana

Quiz
JLPT
N2
Frequency
#33,127

Meanings

  1. 1
    katakana; angular Japanese syllabary used primarily for loanwordsnoun

JMdict 1511600

In a sentence

ひらがなはhiragana書(か)けますcan writeがbut片仮名(かたかな)はkatakanaまだstill; (not) yet書(か)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

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