ン

Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Jump to: navigation, search

See also ソ, and ノ

[edit] Japanese

Stroke order

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

ン (Hepburn romanization n)

The katakana syllable ン (n), whose equivalent in hiragana is ん (n). It is the forty-eighth syllable of the gojūon order.

Unlike the hiragana system which is used for Japanese language words for which kanji does not cover, the katakana syllabary is primarily used for transcription of foreign language words into Japanese and the writing of loan words (collectively gairaigo), as well as to represent onomatopoeia, technical and scientific terms, and the names of plants, animals, and minerals. Names of Japanese companies as well as certain Japanese language words are also written in katakana rather than the other systems.^[edit]