In modern Japanese, hiragana is often used to represent the vocabulary and grammatical auxiliary words inherent in Japanese, and hiragana is also commonly used when phonetic notation of Japanese Chinese characters, which is called vibrating kana.

Katakana is mainly used in the following situations:

1, loanwords, foreign names/foreign place names and other proper nouns.

2. Onomatopoeia and mimetic language

3. Japanese names of organisms and minerals (the Japanese government suggests that the scientific names of animals and plants be expressed in katakana, but personal usage habits do not stipulate it)

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4. Formula documents before World War II (in Chinese characters)

5.8 months ago cable 1988. In a computer system that does not support double bytes (using half-width katakana)

Memory skills:

First of all, you can find a table of the evolution of pseudonyms, that is, how Chinese characters gradually evolved into pseudonyms. This table can be found in the introduction unit of the new standard Japanese foundation. Looking at this table only helps you remember how to write various pseudonyms.

Then, you have to make some small cards, preferably the kind where you can't see anything on the back, and then write a hiragana on one side of each card and a corresponding katakana on the back. In this way, all the sounds in the pentatonic scale are made into cards.

Finally, put the newly made small cards in the bag and shuffle them. Just take out a card, look at one side of it, read its pronunciation, and then think about how to write the kana on the back (that is, see how to write the corresponding katakana in katakana and how to write the corresponding katakana in hiragana).

Katakana is a kind of Japanese, which is called "pseudonym" together with Hiragana. Katakana used for training and reading appeared in Heian period, but katakana fonts were unified in Meiji period. Before that, a pronunciation often had multiple katakana corresponding to it.