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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 18. Chapters: Wi, Hi, Chi, U, No, Shi, E, Ki, A, Fu, Tsu, Ku, Ni, Ka, Ha, Ri, To, He, Wo, Ko, We, Ke, Te, Mi, Mu, Ne, Ho, Ro, Nu, Sa, Re, Se, Ra, Ma, Ru, Na, Wa, Ya, So, Yo, Ta, Yu, Mo, Me. Excerpt:, in hiragana, or in katakana, is a nearly obsolete Japanese kana, each of which represent one mora. It is presumed that represented and that and indicated different pronunciations until somewhere between the Kamakura period and the Taish period when they both came to be pronounced . Along with the kana for we, ( in hiragana, in katakana), this kana was deemed obsolete in Japanese in 1946, and replaced with and . It is now rare in everyday usage; in onomatopoeia and foreign words, the katakana form (U-) is preferred. The kana still sees some modern-day usage, such as the spelling of Nikka Whiskey, which is written " " (nikka uwisuk ), the name of the comedy duo Yoiko is written " " (yowiko), and a character in the video game series Touhou Project has the name " " (Tewi). Katakana is sometimes written with a dakuten,, to represent a sound in foreign words; however, most IMEs lack a convenient way to do this. It is far more common for /vi/ to be represented by the combination . Hiragana is still used in one of the Okinawan orthographies, New Okinawan, for the syllable and in digraphs for . In the Ryukyu University system, katakana is used for, while is . Katakana is used in also Ainu for . During the Nara period, was pronounced as and as . In the Man'y gana, there were characters to represent (e.g.,,,,, ) and (e.g.,,,,,,, ); no characters for one could be used to pronounce the other. The labial glides and also existed (though in those days small script kana were not used for glides), and were distinct from and . During the Heian period, and were st...
