Hiragana is universal, and katakana has three main uses, one is to express foreign words, the other is to express names, for example, you usually use katakana when reading names, and the third is that katakana is also applicable when emphasizing a word in an article! If you want to learn Japanese, you can also come to this study group. First, these three numbers 453, then these three numbers 425, and finally these three numbers 0 18, which also contain learning materials.
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What's the difference between hiragana and katakana?
Hiragana (ひらがな) :ぁぃぅぇぉかきくけこ ......
It consists of 48 characters, and is used to write Japanese native words, function words, verb endings and China loanwords that cannot be written with commonly used words officially recognized. It evolved from the cursive script of Chinese characters and was born for writing songs and stories.
Early hiragana was mostly used by Japanese women, mostly lyrical, so it was called female writing female hands. Men mainly use Chinese characters to describe history and papers, which are called male characters and male hands. Men not only use pseudonyms, but also use katakana as Chinese annotations. It can be seen that Hiragana's position in the early stage was not high. It was not until Ji Guanzhi wrote The Collection of Ancient and Modern Harmony Songs, with a pseudonym at the beginning, that Hiragana's position was established. The popularity of Murasaki shikibu's Tale of Genji also contributed to the spread of Hiragana. The current Hiragana glyphs are from the Meiji era, when the Japanese government decided to compile five tones.
In modern Japanese, hiragana is often used to represent the vocabulary and grammatical auxiliary words inherent in Japanese, and hiragana is also commonly used when phonetic notation of Japanese Chinese characters, which is called vibrating kana. Some documents record that Hiragana was created by the learned monk Konghai, but this statement has been questioned. Opponents believe that the reason for the formation of Hiragana should be the simplification of Chinese characters by the Japanese at that time, not the work of one person.
Katakana (カタカナ) :ァィォカキクケコ ......
It consists of a group of 48 words. It is mainly used to write loanwords other than Chinese, emphasizing onomatopoeia, or the scientific names of animals and plants, and one of the phonetic symbols (syllables) in Japanese. Together with Hiragana and Ye Wan pseudonyms, they are called pseudonyms. The word "katakana" can be expressed in katakana as "カタカナ". If you want to write a pseudonym when signing, you usually write it in katakana. Katakana is simplified from the regular script of Chinese characters in China, which was invented in the early Heian period for training and reading Chinese characters. The current katakana glyph was determined by the Japanese government in Meiji era by compiling fifty tones. Before that, a pronunciation often had multiple katakana corresponding to it.
In writing, it is mainly one-to-one correspondence and reciting one by one. This is the most basic thing, just like the 26 letters of English. Hiragana and katakana are not interesting in themselves. Only words combined with pseudonyms make sense. Hiragana is used for commonly used standard Japanese original words and phonetic symbols of Japanese Chinese characters (equivalent to pinyin), while Katakana is mostly used for loanwords and special purposes (such as advertisements and public signs). Generally speaking, Hiragana is used to write Japanese words (including ordinary Chinese characters) and Katakana is used to write foreign proper nouns (so-called loanwords).
Hiragana: A kind of pseudonyms, extremely cursive, derived from the ten thousand-leaf pseudonyms in regular script or running script (1000 years ago, Chinese characters used to express pronunciation in Japanese had nothing to do with the meaning of Chinese characters). Like Korean proverbs, it was mainly used by women in ancient times.
Function:
1. article record: mixed Chinese characters and Kanas (informal)
2. Desktop sound:
(1) Pinyin Chinese character:, real name.
(2) Homophonic words (inherent words) that cannot be expressed by Chinese characters or Chinese characters.
(3) For beginners of Japanese, replace other characters.
3. Get different effects from the general symbols of words (Chinese characters, katakana).
4. A major field of calligraphy: pen name calligraphy.
Katakana: A kind of pseudonyms, directly derived from the 10,000-leaf pseudonyms in regular script or part of them.
Function:
1. Training and reading chinese (ancient prose), or adding notes to Chinese: adding pseudonyms.
2. Record of the article: Chinese characters mixed with pseudonyms (official)
3. Desktop sound:
(1) Loanwords, names and places outside the cultural circle of Chinese characters
(2) Onomatopoeic words and mimetic words
(3) Phonetic Chinese characters: Chinese characters with pronunciation, special pronunciation and other languages (Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc.). ).
4. Get different effects from the general symbols of words (Chinese characters, hiragana).
(1) Academic terms: especially the names of organisms.
(2) Emphasize
5. Due to technical reasons, only katakana can be used in some circumstances.
(1) Telegrams before August 1988
(2) Computer systems that do not support multibyte characters: half-width katakana.
You can also follow this hiragana table. Hiragana, Katakana and Roman characters are pronounced exactly the same. This table is more concise than the last one.
Attachment: Hiragana of Fifty Tones
ぁぁぁぅぇぉ
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
たたちつて
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
Okay, okay, okay.
All right, let's get started.
Okay, okay, okay.
わわ (ぃぅ) (ぇ) (を)
Part. Part. Part. Part.
Ok, a, I, u, E-O
かかカきキくクけケこコ Ke.
ささサしシすスせセそソ.
たたタちチつツてテとト.
ななナにニぬヌねネのノ No.
ははハひヒふフへヘほホ He.
まマma みミmi むムmu めメme もモmo· まマみミむムめメもモモモメメもモモモモモモム Mo.
Ya (ぃィ) I am in (ぇェェ) e yo.
ららラりリるルれレろロ road.
わわワィィ I (12357 ウ) u (ぇェ) e (をヲ) o
え
Its pronunciation is not the sound of the Chinese pinyin "e", but the sound close to the Chinese pinyin "ei". Because all pseudonyms in the following paragraph will use this sound, so pay attention.
し
As you can see, its Roman character "Shi" is quite special, which is different from other Chinese characters, and its pronunciation is irregular, that is, the pronunciation of Chinese pinyin "xi".
す
Its pronunciation is not the Chinese character "Su", but close to the Chinese phonetic alphabet "Si" (Chinese character "Si"). This pseudonym is often used, so be sure to pay attention.
ち
Its Roman word "c"
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