Template:Katakana table/doc

Usage
There are several optional parameters, default values – which are shown below – should be fine for the katakana article, but probably not for others.

Colors
If an article does not need to distinguish certain groups visually their colors can be set to the same value, e.g.: (same as normal color).
 * #EFFAFA
 * #FFFFFF
 * #EFFAFA
 * #E9E9E9
 * #D0D0D0
 * #F3F5DE
 * #BECFEB
 * #D4D4D4

Table entries
The notes on unused, obsolete and etymological characters can be changed and combined:


 * indicates obsolete characters.


 * イ i
 * ウ u
 * unused used in
 * Theoretical combinations yi and wu are unused. Some katakana were invented for them by linguists in the Edo and Meiji periods in order to fill out the table, but they were never actually used in normal writing. used for


 * エ e
 * extinct used in
 * The combination ye existed in Old Japanese and was represented in very early katakana, but has been extinct for several hundred years, having merged with e. The ye katakana (𛄡) was adopted for e (displacing the 𛀀 glyph originally used for e); this evolved over time to the modern エ. used for


 * ヰ / イ wi/i
 * ヱ / エ we/e
 * ヲ wo/o
 * obsolete used in
 * The characters in positions wi and we are obsolete. The character wo, in practice normally pronounced o, is preserved in only one use: as a particle. This is normally written in hiragana (を), so katakana ヲ sees only limited use. See Gojūon and the articles on each character for details. used for in notes


 * di
 * du
 * dya
 * dyu
 * dyo
 * etymological used in
 * The ヂ (di) and ヅ (du) kana (often romanised as ji and zu) are primarily used for etymological spelling, when the unvoiced equivalents チ (ti) and ツ (tu) (often romanised as chi and tsu) undergo a sound change (rendaku) and become voiced when they occur in the middle of a compound word. In other cases, the identically-pronounced ジ (ji) and ズ (zu) are used instead. ヂ (di) and ヅ (du) can never begin a word, and they are not common in katakana, since the concept of rendakudoes not apply to transcribed foreign words, one of the major uses of katakana. used for

Other table entries
 * ン n  before stop consonants; n  elsewhere
 * ッ (indicates a geminate consonant)
 * ー (indicates a long vowel)
 * ヽ (reduplicates and unvoices syllable)
 * ヾ (reduplicates and voices syllable)

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"wi": { "inherits": "yi", "label": "Wi description", "description": "followed by ", "default": " ヰ wi" },		"we": { "inherits": "wi", "label": "We description", "default": " ヱ we" },		"wo": { "inherits": "wi", "label": "Wo description", "default": " ヲ wo " },

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