Katakana is today considered Japan’s second native script, to be learned after hiragana.It is usually studied in the first grade of elementary school, although some children master it before then.

There are not one but three writing systems that work together in the Japanese alphabet system: namely Hiragana, Katakana & Kanji. Here’s an in-depth guide.

Find out what her temporary tattoo, done in Katakana script, reads Lada Gaga arrived in Japan for four concerts through the weekend and celebrated by getting a temporary tattoo written in Katakana ...

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The resemblance to the Japanese "Katakana" alphabet runs even deeper than this, actually, as the characters look somewhat similar. We presume this was done in order to make it so that Japanese ...

Writing it in katakana takes eight brushstrokes instead of the d-word's ten, which was also fortuitous — eight is considered a lucky number in Japan, ...

There’s an art to creating emoticons from simple characters. Here are 16 characters you can borrow from the writing systems of other languages to up your emoticon game. 1. ツ (Japanese katakana TU) ...

Learn to write and read Katakana, one of the basic Japanese syllabaries. Free download of PDF Katakana chart. Japan's public broadcaster, NHK, provides these reliable Japanese lessons.

We also see writing on a huge billboard when Taylor’s partying in Tokyo – which when translated is revealed to be lyrics to ‘End Game’ as well as ‘Meredith Olivia’ – her cat’s names.

Also, Duolingo’s other app, Tinycards on iOS, now has hiragana and katakana alphabet characters available for study as well. Duolingo Adds Clubs to Make Language Learning More Competitive Read More ...