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.
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Katakana
//ˌkætəˈkɑːnə//
Synonyms for "katakana" (15 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Strong matches (5)
Related words (7)
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4 entriesTranslations
42 translations across 32 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- كَاتَاكَانَا noun (Japanese syllabary)
Armenian
1 entries- կատականա noun (Japanese syllabary)
Belarusian
2 entries- ката́кана noun (Japanese syllabary)
- катака́на noun (Japanese syllabary)
Bulgarian
1 entries- катакана noun (Japanese syllabary)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎧᏔᎧᎾ noun (Japanese syllabary)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 片假名 noun (Japanese syllabary)
Czech
1 entries- katakana noun (Japanese syllabary)
Finnish
1 entries- katakana noun (Japanese syllabary)
French
1 entries- katakana noun (Japanese syllabary)
Georgian
1 entries- კატაკანა noun (Japanese syllabary)
German
1 entries- Katakana noun (Japanese syllabary)
Greek
1 entries- κατακάνα noun (Japanese syllabary)
Hebrew
1 entries- קאטאקאנה noun (Japanese syllabary)
Hindi
2 entries- काटाकना noun (Japanese syllabary)
- काटाकाना noun (Japanese syllabary)
Italian
1 entries- katakana noun (Japanese syllabary)
Japanese
2 entries- カタカナ noun (Japanese syllabary)
- 片仮名 noun (Japanese syllabary)
Korean
4 entries- 가타가나 noun (Japanese syllabary)
- 가타카나 noun (Japanese syllabary)
- 카타가나 noun (Japanese syllabary)
- 카타카나 noun (Japanese syllabary)
Macedonian
1 entries- катакана noun (Japanese syllabary)
Malay
1 entries- katakana noun (Japanese syllabary)
Marathi
1 entries- काताकाना noun (Japanese syllabary)
Mongolian
1 entries- катакана noun (Japanese syllabary)
Persian
1 entries- کاتاکانا noun (Japanese syllabary)
Polish
1 entries- katakana noun (Japanese syllabary)
Portuguese
1 entries- katakana noun (Japanese syllabary)
Russian
2 entries- ката́кана noun (Japanese syllabary)
- катака́на noun (Japanese syllabary)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- katakana noun (Japanese syllabary)
- катакана noun (Japanese syllabary)
Spanish
1 entries- katakana noun (Japanese syllabary)
Swedish
1 entries- katakana noun (Japanese syllabary)
Tagalog
1 entries- katakana noun (Japanese syllabary)
Thai
1 entries- คะตะคะนะ noun (Japanese syllabary)
Ukrainian
2 entries- ката́кана noun (Japanese syllabary)
- катака́на noun (Japanese syllabary)
Vietnamese
2 entries- chữ cứng noun (Japanese syllabary)
- katakana noun (Japanese syllabary)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
The Japanese language has three different alphabets: hiragana, katakana and kanji.
Source: tatoeba (4410549)
Tom's name was easy to convert to katakana.
Source: tatoeba (9373530)
Tom can write his name in katakana.
Source: tatoeba (9453489)
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