| Men and boys are dressed in casual lungis or loose-fitting kana robes as they go about their daily affairs. |
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| Japanese children with reading disabilities often have disproportionately more difficulty reading and writing kanji than kana. |
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| As you can see, most of the page is in the usual Japanese mixture of Chinese characters and kana. |
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| A clear-cut distinction cannot always be made between alphabets proper and syllabaries, sets of syllabic symbols as in the Japanese kana systems. |
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| Each kana, as these two systems are called, is a separate phonetic syllabary and each hiragana character has a corresponding katakana character. |
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| We were required either to give her another name or use the kana phonetic form. |
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| Buddhist temple coins here in Japan are inscribed with kana syllables, not kanji ideograms. |
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| The Su Tongpo poetry of the Kusoshi is printed in clear, blockish characters, while the waka verses appear in a mixture of cursive characters and kana syllables. |
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| In the future, additional functions will be incorporated so that kanji and kana can be used properly and declensional kana endings can be checked. |
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| As it is not multiple choice, it really tests your knowledge of the kana! |
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| Thus, the systematic combination of kanji and kana, and to a limited extent, of romaji in the Japanese orthography, provides rich sources for research and pedagogy. |
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| We were misled by a picture agency's caption error: but we should at least have spotted the absence of kana on the blackboard. |
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| It was the first major literary work written in the kana writing system. |
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| Long vowels are written by adding the kana for that vowel, in effect doubling it. |
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| There are several conventions of Okinawan kana which involve subscript digraphs or ligatures. |
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| Tapping in the kana word produces a list of kanji characters from which the user can then pick the most appropriate. What of other languages that have more characters than Latin-based ones, but fewer than Chinese or Japanese? |
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| For sending text messages, people use kana, the Japanese phonetic alphabet, which has just 46 characters that can be mapped fairly easily to the 12 keys on a mobile phone handset. |
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| During the 10th century a truly Japanese culture developed, one of the most important contributing factors being the emergence of indigenous scripts, the kana syllabaries. |
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| All is written in shaky kana letters, only with one or two kanjis, i.e. the Chinese letters. |
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| Staring in disbelief Kana realized that the flower had withered slowly beneath her touch. |
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| Each is presented with original text, Kana transliteration, Romanization, glossing with morphemic analysis, translation, and commentary. |
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| Gold artifacts found at the Nahal Kana cave cemetery dated during the 1980s, showed these to be from within the Chalcolithic, and considered the earliest find from the Levant. |
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