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[edit] Translingual

The Katakana script
Katakana halfwidth syllables
Additional symbols
Unicode: U+30F3Hiragana: Hepburn romanization: n, n'Nihon-shiki romanization: n, n'Polivanov cyrillization: н, мJapanese braille:

[edit] Syllable

  1. The katakana syllable without particular 行 (row) or 段 (section) in a gojūon table, positioned at a corner.

[edit] Japanese

Stroke order
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[edit] Etymology

Simplified in the Heian period from the man'yōgana kanji .

[edit] Katakana character

(romaji n)

  1. The [n] phoneme, typically in words of non-Japanese origin.
  2. The forty-eighth character in the gojūon ordering of katakana. The previous character is . The equivalent hiragana character is .

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