Katakana

If you go around the Internet, using half-width katakana in various places, eventually you're going to end up pissing off a lot of people.

The Japanese language has three different alphabets: hiragana, katakana and kanji.

Tom's name was easy to convert to katakana.

Tom can write his name in katakana.

My katakana has never been good and I'm losing my ability to read hiragana.

Taro's strong katakana pronunciation could be heard through his French.

I must admit that reading Japanese with its cursive Hiragana phonograms, knife-stroke Katakana phonograms, and complicated Kanji logograms is very amusing. Printed Roman-lettered text of Western languages seems harder for my eyes and has less visual fluidity.

Many Japanese think that the heart of their written language is the two sets of Kana phonograms—Hiragana and Katakana—not Kanji logograms, which they relegate to older people.

In Japanese, Hiragana and Katakana are sets of phonograms, specifically syllabograms. Kanji are logograms, specifically sinograms.

Maybe my favourite katakana syllabogram is the one for "mu."