Misplaced Pages

#917082

52-636: Taketoyo is located in the northeast corner of Chita Peninsula in southern Aichi Prefecture, bordered by Mikawa Bay to the east. Part of the town's area is within the borders of the Mikawa Wan Quasi-National Park . Per Japanese census data, the population of Taketoyo has been increasing over the past 70 years. The town has a climate characterized by characterized by hot and humid summers, and relatively mild winters ( Köppen climate classification Cfa ). The average annual temperature in Taketoyo

104-525: A man-made island near Tokoname , making the peninsula the main gateway for people coming to Tōkai region by air. There was a referendum in December 2004 to merge Mihama and Minamichita to form the city of Minami-Centrair(Japanese:南セントレア市). However, the name was not suggested by anyone who voted on the name and was selected by the Mihama-Minamichita merge council with an intent of the city growing as

156-434: A 5×10 grid ( gojūon , 五十音, literally "fifty sounds"), as shown in the adjacent table, read ア ( a ) , イ ( i ) , ウ ( u ) , エ ( e ) , オ ( o ) , カ ( ka ) , キ ( ki ) , ク ( ku ) , ケ ( ke ) , コ ( ko ) and so on. The gojūon inherits its vowel and consonant order from Sanskrit practice. In vertical text contexts, which used to be the default case, the grid is usually presented as 10 columns by 5 rows, with vowels on

208-678: A bedroom community of the airport. This met severe backlash as the Chubu Centrair International airport was in Tokoname, and the name using Katakana , which was not related to the history of the area. Due to these incidents, the referendum was not passed by the residents, which ended the talks for merge with the council disbanding in the March of 2005. The city is industrialized with factories from companies such as Sumitomo Heavy Industries and Toyota Industries . The production of grapes are

260-524: A chance to practice reading and writing kana with meaningful words. This was the approach taken by the influential American linguistics scholar Eleanor Harz Jorden in Japanese: The Written Language (parallel to Japanese: The Spoken Language ). Katakana is commonly used by Japanese linguists to write the Ainu language . In Ainu katakana usage, the consonant that comes at the end of a syllable

312-483: A primary alteration; most often it voices the consonant: k → g , s → z , t → d and h → b ; for example, カ ( ka ) becomes ガ ( ga ) . Secondary alteration, where possible, is shown by a circular handakuten : h → p ; For example; ハ ( ha ) becomes パ ( pa ) . Diacritics, though used for over a thousand years, only became mandatory in the Japanese writing system in the second half of the 20th century. Their application

364-635: A species, is written ヒト ( hito ) , rather than its kanji 人 . Katakana are often (but not always) used for transcription of Japanese company names. For example, Suzuki is written スズキ , and Toyota is written トヨタ . As these are common family names, Suzuki being the second most common in Japan, using katakana helps distinguish company names from surnames in writing. Katakana are commonly used on signs, advertisements, and hoardings (i.e., billboards ), for example, ココ ( koko , "here") , ゴミ ( gomi , "trash") , or メガネ ( megane , "glasses") . Words

416-573: A vowel, but this is not exactly the case (and never has been). Existing schemes for the romanization of Japanese either are based on the systematic nature of the script, e.g. nihon-shiki チ ti , or they apply some Western graphotactics , usually the English one, to the common Japanese pronunciation of the kana signs, e.g. Hepburn-shiki チ chi . Both approaches conceal the fact, though, that many consonant-based katakana signs, especially those canonically ending in u , can be used in coda position, too, where

468-736: Is 15.5 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1672 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 27.5 °C, and lowest in January, at around 4.6 °C. The village of Taketoyo was established within Chita District, Aichi by the early Meiji period establishment of the modern municipalities system on October 1, 1889. Taketoyo was raised to town status on February 15, 1891. An Imperial decree in July 1899 established Taketoyo as an open port for trading with

520-551: Is a Bed town community and also has multiple thermal power generators. Many shopping malls and leisure facilities has opened in the area since the opening of Chubu Centrair International Airport . It houses the main office of Mitsukan . The Kamezaki Shiohi Festival is one of the Yama, Hoko, yataigyoji, which is one of the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage . The town is a Commuter town . The town nearly met

572-464: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Chita Peninsula The Chita Peninsula (知多半島 Chita Hantō ) is a peninsula to the south of Aichi Prefecture , central Honshū , Japan . It runs approximately north-south. To the west is Ise Bay , while to the east it encloses Mikawa Bay . It faces the Atsumi Peninsula southeast across Mikawa Bay. Chūbu Centrair International Airport

SECTION 10

#1733085074918

624-515: Is a Japanese syllabary , one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana , kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji ). The word katakana means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived from components or fragments of more complex kanji. Katakana and hiragana are both kana systems. With one or two minor exceptions, each syllable (strictly mora ) in

676-419: Is also used for this purpose). This phenomenon is often seen with medical terminology . For example, in the word 皮膚科 hifuka (" dermatology "), the second kanji, 膚 , is considered difficult to read, and thus the word hifuka is commonly written 皮フ科 or ヒフ科 , mixing kanji and katakana. Similarly, difficult-to-read kanji such as 癌 gan (" cancer ") are often written in katakana or hiragana. Katakana

728-617: Is also used for traditional musical notations, as in the Tozan- ryū of shakuhachi , and in sankyoku ensembles with koto , shamisen and shakuhachi . Some instructors teaching Japanese as a foreign language "introduce katakana after the students have learned to read and write sentences in hiragana without difficulty and know the rules." Most students who have learned hiragana "do not have great difficulty in memorizing" katakana as well. Other instructors introduce katakana first, because these are used with loanwords. This gives students

780-573: Is famous in the town. The town seeks to encourage tourism with its beaches and fishing docks. However, this has not been too successful. Fishing is a major industry in the town. Many tourists visits the beaches in the town. Himakajima and Shinojima , famous for octopus and Fugu fishing currently is a part of the town. 34°41′47″N 136°58′25″E  /  34.696383°N 136.9735°E  / 34.696383; 136.9735 (Hazumisaki:Southernmost point) Katakana Katakana ( 片仮名 、 カタカナ , IPA: [katakaꜜna, kataꜜkana] )

832-407: Is located off the west coast of the peninsula. The peninsula is relatively narrow and consists of a hilly terrain. The northern part of the peninsula is industrialized, with a western part of them being a part of Chūkyō Industrial Area . The southern part is relatively less industrialized and fishing villages and beaches can be seen. In 2005, Chubu Centrair International Airport was opened in

884-451: Is no longer applicable to kana) . The adjacent table shows the origins of each katakana: the red markings of the original Chinese character (used as man'yōgana ) eventually became each corresponding symbol. Katakana is also heavily influenced by Sanskrit due to the original creators having travelled and worked with Indian Buddhists based in East Asia during the era. Official documents of

936-489: Is represented as ベッド ( beddo ). The sokuon also sometimes appears at the end of utterances, where it denotes a glottal stop . However, it cannot be used to double the na , ni , nu , ne , no syllables' consonants; to double these, the singular n (ン) is added in front of the syllable. The sokuon may also be used to approximate a non-native sound: Bach is written バッハ ( Bahha ); Mach as マッハ ( Mahha ). Both katakana and hiragana usually spell native long vowels with

988-486: Is represented by a small version of a katakana that corresponds to that final consonant followed by a vowel (for details of which vowel, please see the table at Ainu language § Special katakana for the Ainu language ). For instance, the Ainu word up is represented by ウㇷ゚ ( ウ プ [ u followed by small pu ]). Ainu also uses three handakuten modified katakana: セ゚ ( [tse] ) and either ツ゚ or ト゚ ( [tu̜] ). In Unicode,

1040-427: Is strictly limited in proper writing systems, but may be more extensive in academic transcriptions. Furthermore, some characters may have special semantics when used in smaller sizes after a normal one (see below), but this does not make the script truly bicameral . The layout of the gojūon table promotes a systematic view of kana syllabograms as being always pronounced with the same single consonant followed by

1092-426: Is usually referred to as アメリカ ( Amerika ) , rather than in its ateji kanji spelling of 亜米利加 ( Amerika ) . Katakana are also used for onomatopoeia, words used to represent sounds – for example, ピンポン ( pinpon ) , the "ding-dong" sound of a doorbell. Technical and scientific terms, such as the names of animal and plant species and minerals, are also commonly written in katakana. Homo sapiens , as

SECTION 20

#1733085074918

1144-718: The Cabinet of Japan 's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology . Katakana combinations with beige backgrounds are suggested by the American National Standards Institute and the British Standards Institution as possible uses. Ones with purple backgrounds appear on the 1974 version of the Hyōjun-shiki formatting. Pronunciations are shown in Hepburn romanization . Katakana

1196-456: The Empire of Japan were written exclusively with kyūjitai and katakana. Katakana have variant forms. For example, [REDACTED] (ネ) and [REDACTED] (ヰ). However, katakana's variant forms are fewer than hiragana's. Katakana's choices of man'yōgana segments had stabilized early on and established – with few exceptions – an unambiguous phonemic orthography (one symbol per sound) long before

1248-557: The Taketoyo Thermal Power Station , which provides substantial employment and tax revenues. The traditional industries in the town center around the production of soy sauce , miso and cotton products. [REDACTED] Central Japan Railway Company - Taketoyo Line [REDACTED] Meitetsu – Kōwa Line [REDACTED] Meitetsu – Chita New Line [REDACTED] Media related to Taketoyo at Wikimedia Commons This Aichi Prefecture location article

1300-553: The zhùyīn fúhào characters, with kana serving as initials, vowel medials and consonant finals, marked with tonal marks. A dot below the initial kana represents aspirated consonants, and チ, ツ, サ, セ, ソ, ウ and オ with a superpositional bar represent sounds found only in Taiwanese. Katakana is used as a phonetic guide for the Okinawan language , unlike the various other systems to represent Okinawan, which use hiragana with extensions. The system

1352-515: The 1900 script regularization. The following table shows the method for writing each katakana character. It is arranged in a traditional manner, where characters are organized by the sounds that make them up. The numbers and arrows indicate the stroke order and direction, respectively. In addition to fonts intended for Japanese text and Unicode catch-all fonts (like Arial Unicode MS ), many fonts intended for Chinese (such as MS Song) and Korean (such as Batang) also include katakana. In addition to

1404-418: The Japanese language is represented by one character or kana in each system. Each kana represents either a vowel such as " a " (katakana ア ); a consonant followed by a vowel such as " ka " (katakana カ ); or " n " (katakana ン ), a nasal sonorant which, depending on the context, sounds like English m , n or ng ( [ ŋ ] ) or like the nasal vowels of Portuguese or Galician . In contrast to

1456-838: The Katakana Phonetic Extensions block ( U+31F0–U+31FF ) exists for Ainu language support. These characters are used for the Ainu language only. Taiwanese kana (タイ [REDACTED] ヲァヌ [REDACTED] ギイ [REDACTED] カア [REDACTED] ビェン [REDACTED] ) is a katakana-based writing system once used to write Holo Taiwanese , when Taiwan was under Japanese rule . It functioned as a phonetic guide for Chinese characters , much like furigana in Japanese or Zhùyīn fúhào in Chinese. There were similar systems for other languages in Taiwan as well, including Hakka and Formosan languages . Unlike Japanese or Ainu, Taiwanese kana are used similarly to

1508-628: The United States and the United Kingdom. On October 5, 1954, Taketoyo annexed the neighboring village of Fuki, also from Chita District. Due to its location near the Greater Nagoya metropolis and the port facilities at the Port of Kinuura , Taketoyo is home to numerous factories, including glass manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals. Chubu Electric Power also has a large electrical generating facility,

1560-399: The addition of a second vowel kana. However, in foreign loanwords, katakana instead uses a vowel extender mark, called a chōonpu ("long vowel mark"). This is a short line (ー) following the direction of the text, horizontal for yokogaki (horizontal text), and vertical for tategaki (vertical text). For example, メール mēru is the gairaigo for e-mail taken from the English word "mail";

1612-463: The computer equipment of the day. This space is narrower than the square space traditionally occupied by Japanese characters, hence the name "half-width". In this scheme, diacritics (dakuten and handakuten) are separate characters. When originally devised, the half-width katakana were represented by a single byte each, as in JIS X 0201, again in line with the capabilities of contemporary computer technology. In

Taketoyo - Misplaced Pages Continue

1664-415: The criteria of 50,000 population to be elevated into city status in the 2010 census, but failed due to the population count being readjusted after several anonymous prosecution of data paddings. Agriculture is growing in the town, and it produces the rice brand “Renge chan”. Some car part factories has moved in the area. The town has a large solar panel “Mega Solar Taketoyo”, by Chubu Electric Power . Miso

1716-399: The full list. In modern Japanese, katakana is most often used for transcription of words from foreign languages or loanwords (other than words historically imported from Chinese), called gairaigo . For example, "ice cream" is written アイスクリーム ( aisukurīmu ) . Similarly, katakana is usually used for country names, foreign places, and foreign personal names. For example, the United States

1768-415: The highest in the prefecture. Wellness valley , a place with welfare, health facilities extending over south of the city to northern Higashiura is being developed. It has a main office of multiple steel producers like Daido Steel Co. Ltd. , Aichi Steel . It is also a founding place of Kagome . The city is called “City of steel and ran” Because of the prospering production steel and Orchid . The city

1820-702: The hiragana syllabary, which is used for Japanese words not covered by kanji and for grammatical inflections, the katakana syllabary usage is comparable to italics in English; specifically, it is used for transcription of foreign-language words into Japanese and the writing of loan words (collectively gairaigo ); for emphasis; to represent onomatopoeia ; for technical and scientific terms; and for names of plants, animals, minerals and often Japanese companies. Katakana evolved from Japanese Buddhist monks transliterating Chinese texts into Japanese. The complete katakana script consists of 48 characters, not counting functional and diacritic marks: These are conceived as

1872-461: The introduction of multibyte characters – in the 1980s. Most computers of that era used katakana instead of kanji or hiragana for output. Although words borrowed from ancient Chinese are usually written in kanji, loanwords from modern Chinese varieties that are borrowed directly use katakana instead. The very common Chinese loanword rāmen , written in katakana as ラーメン , is rarely written with its kanji ( 拉麺 ). There are rare instances where

1924-474: The kanji 人 has a Japanese pronunciation, written in hiragana as ひと hito (person), as well as a Chinese derived pronunciation, written in katakana as ジン jin (used to denote groups of people). Katakana is sometimes used instead of hiragana as furigana to give the pronunciation of a word written in Roman characters, or for a foreign word, which is written as kanji for the meaning, but intended to be pronounced as

1976-528: The late 1970s, two-byte character sets such as JIS X 0208 were introduced to support the full range of Japanese characters, including katakana, hiragana and kanji. Their display forms were designed to fit into an approximately square array of pixels, hence the name "full-width". For backward compatibility, separate support for half-width katakana has continued to be available in modern multi-byte encoding schemes such as Unicode, by having two separate blocks of characters – one displayed as usual (full-width) katakana,

2028-455: The nasal ン ( n ). This can appear in several positions, most often next to the N signs or, because it developed from one of many mu hentaigana , below the u column. It may also be appended to the vowel row or the a column. Here, it is shown in a table of its own. The script includes two diacritic marks placed at the upper right of the base character that change the initial sound of a syllabogram. A double dot, called dakuten , indicates

2080-408: The opposite has occurred, with kanji forms created from words originally written in katakana. An example of this is コーヒー kōhī , (" coffee "), which can alternatively be written as 珈琲 . This kanji usage is occasionally employed by coffee manufacturers or coffee shops for novelty. Katakana is used to indicate the on'yomi (Chinese-derived readings) of a kanji in a kanji dictionary . For instance,

2132-436: The original. Katakana are also sometimes used to indicate words being spoken in a foreign or otherwise unusual accent. For example, in a manga , the speech of a foreign character or a robot may be represented by コンニチワ konnichiwa ("hello") instead of the more typical hiragana こんにちは . Some Japanese personal names are written in katakana. This was more common in the past, hence elderly women often have katakana names. This

Taketoyo - Misplaced Pages Continue

2184-634: The other displayed as half-width katakana. Although often said to be obsolete, the half-width katakana are still used in many systems and encodings. For example, the titles of mini discs can only be entered in ASCII or half-width katakana, and half-width katakana are commonly used in computerized cash register displays, on shop receipts, and Japanese digital television and DVD subtitles. Several popular Japanese encodings such as EUC-JP , Unicode and Shift JIS have half-width katakana code as well as full-width. By contrast, ISO-2022-JP has no half-width katakana, and

2236-409: The right hand side and ア ( a ) on top. Katakana glyphs in the same row or column do not share common graphic characteristics. Three of the syllabograms to be expected, yi , ye and wu , may have been used idiosyncratically with varying glyphs , but never became conventional in any language and are not present at all in modern Japanese. The 50-sound table is often amended with an extra character,

2288-488: The slant and stroke shape. These differences in slant and shape are more prominent when written with an ink brush . Notes Using small versions of the five vowel kana, many digraphs have been devised, mainly to represent the sounds in words of other languages. Digraphs with orange backgrounds are the general ones used for loanwords or foreign places or names, and those with blue backgrounds are used for more accurate transliterations of foreign sounds, both suggested by

2340-496: The small y kana is called yōon . A character called a sokuon , which is visually identical to a small tsu ッ, indicates that the following consonant is geminated (doubled). This is represented in rōmaji by doubling the consonant that follows the sokuon . In Japanese this is an important distinction in pronunciation; for example, compare サカ saka "hill" with サッカ sakka "author". Geminated consonants are common in transliterations of foreign loanwords; for example, English "bed"

2392-450: The usual full-width ( 全角 , zenkaku ) display forms of characters, katakana has a second form, half-width ( 半角 , hankaku ) . The half-width forms were originally associated with the JIS X 0201 encoding. Although their display form is not specified in the standard, in practice they were designed to fit into the same rectangle of pixels as Roman letters to enable easy implementation on

2444-443: The vowel is unvoiced and therefore barely perceptible. Of the 48 katakana syllabograms described above, only 46 are used in modern Japanese, and one of these is preserved for only a single use: A small version of the katakana for ya , yu or yo (ャ, ュ or ョ, respectively) may be added to katakana ending in i . This changes the i vowel sound to a glide ( palatalization ) to a , u or o , e.g. キャ ( ki + ya ) /kja/. Addition of

2496-507: The writer wishes to emphasize in a sentence are also sometimes written in katakana, mirroring the usage of italics in European languages. Pre–World War II official documents mix katakana and kanji in the same way that hiragana and kanji are mixed in modern Japanese texts, that is, katakana were used for okurigana and particles such as wa or o . Katakana was also used for telegrams in Japan before 1988, and for computer systems – before

2548-722: The ー lengthens the e . There are some exceptions, such as ローソク ( rōsoku ( 蝋燭 , "candle") ) or ケータイ ( kētai ( 携帯 , "mobile phone") ), where Japanese words written in katakana use the elongation mark , too. Standard and voiced iteration marks are written in katakana as ヽ and ヾ, respectively. Small versions of the five vowel kana are sometimes used to represent trailing off sounds (ハァ haa , ネェ nee ), but in katakana they are more often used in yōon-like extended digraphs designed to represent phonemes not present in Japanese; examples include チェ ( che ) in チェンジ chenji ("change"), ファ ( fa ) in ファミリー famirī ("family") and ウィ ( wi ) and ディ ( di ) in ウィキペディア Misplaced Pages ; see below for

2600-457: Was developed in the 9th century (during the early Heian period ) by Buddhist monks in Nara in order to transliterate texts and works of arts from India, by taking parts of man'yōgana characters as a form of shorthand, hence this kana is so-called kata ( 片 , "partial, fragmented") . For example, ka ( カ ) comes from the left side of ka ( 加 , lit. "increase", but the original meaning

2652-649: Was devised by the Okinawa Center of Language Study of the University of the Ryukyus . It uses many extensions and yōon to show the many non-Japanese sounds of Okinawan. This is a table of katakana together with their Hepburn romanization and rough IPA transcription for their use in Japanese. Katakana with dakuten or handakuten follow the gojūon kana without them. Characters shi シ , tsu ツ , so ソ , and n ン look very similar in print except for

SECTION 50

#1733085074918

2704-721: Was particularly common among women in the Meiji and Taishō periods, when many poor, illiterate parents were unwilling to pay a scholar to give their daughters names in kanji. Katakana is also used to denote the fact that a character is speaking a foreign language, and what is displayed in katakana is only the Japanese "translation" of their words. Some frequently used words may also be written in katakana in dialogs to convey an informal, conversational tone. Some examples include マンガ ("manga"), アイツ aitsu ("that guy or girl; he/him; she/her"), バカ baka ("fool"), etc. Words with difficult-to-read kanji are sometimes written in katakana (hiragana

#917082