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Description I edited the tables from this site: [link] and made some japanese translation tools n__n In case you can't figure it out, it starts out with kata kana characters.. you should be able to see the switch from there... 1/2=half width character... i don't know what they're for... Standard japanese rules apply: C=K R=L Zi=Ji ... I'm not sure if the "Z" characters are all the same as "j" characters... i've only seen "zi" used as "j"/"ji". anyway, i made it for my own learning, but anyone can use it if they want, so knock yourself out. Anyone fluent with Japanese please let me know if there's any terrible mistakes that i'm embarrasing myself with. And if someone would be so kind... would they tell me when exactly its considered appropriet to use Katakana and when to use hirigana? thx.



EDIT: Okee, I have learned enough to know that this character table is horribly twisted, but I'll leave it up because its' received so many page views and was still a good place for me to start.
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Comments: 13

DeidarasGirl110398 [2010-11-20 05:07:13 +0000 UTC]

Hirigana is usually used for Japanese words. Example: かわいい (kawaii=cute). It's the only Japanese word that everybody knows...
and Katakana is usually used for foreign words, like: パザル (pazaruuzzle)

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Aliskevo [2010-04-13 12:09:12 +0000 UTC]

This was a lifesaver when I forgot what 'ne' looked like for my Jap homework! Good job!

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jaems-kun In reply to Aliskevo [2010-04-14 04:32:14 +0000 UTC]

Glad it helped!

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Shelly-oneechan [2009-10-10 02:24:50 +0000 UTC]

I am proud to say that I have learned more than half of these by heart in the month and a half I've been taking Japanese so far.

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SoC-spoc [2007-07-16 14:36:13 +0000 UTC]

wi and we are not used anymore in katakana and hiragana

i have never seen a little a i u e o nor little wa

its tsu not tu and zu not du
not ti its chi and not di its ji
fu not hu

thats all i see for now

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jaems-kun In reply to SoC-spoc [2007-07-16 18:38:47 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the info!
the "little" characters have to do with the fact that I ripped this table of a site that was merely trying to demonstrate unicode and it's effect on international characters. My ignorance at the time caused me to take them as real alternative symbols.

There's definitely better charts floating around now, but this one helped me out quite a bit when I was just starting to learn, so I'll leave it up!

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SoC-spoc In reply to jaems-kun [2007-07-16 21:25:36 +0000 UTC]

how do you use unicode???

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jaems-kun In reply to SoC-spoc [2007-07-16 22:21:54 +0000 UTC]

I don't remember any of the japanese characters but it's when you use code to make symbols in html and stuff. like   = an indent, %2f") and stuff like that. I took all the unicode off this chart in order to use it as a reference.

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Neomanas [2006-08-01 09:31:39 +0000 UTC]

thanks man I'm very interested in Japanese culture and I want to know about them as much as I can

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jaems-kun In reply to Neomanas [2006-08-02 00:24:52 +0000 UTC]

If you haven't found it already, this place has been big help to me: [link]

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Neomanas In reply to jaems-kun [2006-08-02 16:40:52 +0000 UTC]

I haven't searched here anything about japanese but I tried and find and find a lot thanks you one more time

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fyrephlie [2006-07-05 00:10:40 +0000 UTC]

hirigana are used for japanese words, katakana are used for non-japanese words... and some japanese words, for some reason, such as kiiroi, yellow, which is AFAIK japanese but spelled with katakana usually. meh.

also.. there is no si, it's shi, and it's not zi it's ji... umm, well actually, check out [link] and [link]


i can't believe no one has commented on this until now... but there you have it.

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jaems-kun In reply to fyrephlie [2006-07-05 04:25:20 +0000 UTC]

Yah, my knowledge has increased much more since i put this up. But still, thanks! I appreciate the input.

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