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kana

From Ruby Annotation (2001-05-31) | Glossary for this source

Collective term for hiragana and katakana.
katakana

From Ruby Annotation (2001-05-31) | Glossary for this source

Japanese syllabic script, or character of that script. Angular in appearance. Subset of the Japanese writing system, used together with kanji and hiragana. In recent times, mainly used to write foreign words.

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