Talk:Kana

Telegraph
I think it's interesting to add that in order to communicate through the telegraph system (which was a meaningful technological adaptation with broad consequences), Japanese people used Kana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabun_code). Obviously it would have been too impractical to devise a system that tries to attribute codes to kanji. I just can't really see where that information would fit in the article in its present state.

TypeOfType (talk) 17:47, 10 April 2022 (UTC)


 * How the Chinese dealt with it was assigning four-digit codes to characters (Chinese telegraph code), then sending those four-digit codes across with either the Morse digits or abbreviations thereof. As for Japanese, katakana alone was also used by early computer systems (see JIS X 0201 and ), prior to widespread support for wide CCSes such as JIS X 0208 or Unicode. As for the page for Wabun code, it's currently linked from, but might be worthwhile linking from this article too… --HarJIT (talk) 12:27, 15 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Done. --HarJIT (talk) 12:35, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
 * yup.
 * --Feli`z Pheonix Pheobe Taylor. 2600:8807:268A:5800:C06D:98FF:FEEE:691F (talk) 19:06, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Kana
I always herd that the name Kana means"powerfull'. 2600:8807:268A:5800:C06D:98FF:FEEE:691F (talk) 19:08, 7 March 2024 (UTC)