Example sentences for: katakana

How can you use “katakana” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Many thousands of items in contemporary urban Japanese usage are adapted English words, nativized by reshaping their syllabic patterns into forms that can be written in katakana symbols and pronounced without difficulty.

  • Sometimes, for additional clarity, kanbun writers will add the inflectional endings to the right of the line, using phonetic symbols called katakana :

  • • English names written in katakana: The Dark Ducks, J-League Downtown (J-League is a soccer league), Physical, Cruising, Omnibus, Original Love, The Peanuts (twin sisters), Southern All-Stars, The Tempters, Tokyo Performance Doll (seven girls), Tulip, Tunnels (pronounced toenails), Zutorobi (The Beatles pronounced backwards, syllabically rather than alphabetically!

  • It consists of borrowed Chinese ideograms (characters known as kanji , the hiragana syllabary used for Japanese words not covered by kanji , the katakana syllabary used for foreign words, and the Roman alphabet known as romanji usually used for abbreviations like UN and acronyms like GATT .

  • Thus developed the katakana system used as a vehicle for writing Buddhist names and concepts.


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