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Katakana - Introduction

Modern Japanese combines the use of hiragana, katakana and kanji in its writing system.

Every katakana character has an equivalent hiragana character.

Katakana is commonly used for loan words, and things you want to create a special impression.

Even it may seem awkward, if you write every character in katakana, native Japanese could still be able to read it.

Katakana, like hiragana, is (almost) 100% phonetic. What you see is what you pronounce.

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