Japanese KatakanaThe Japanese katakana syllabaryIn each column the rōmaji appears on the left, the katakana symbols in the middle and the kanji from which the symbols were derived on the right.
The symbols for 'wi' and 'we' were made obsolete by the Japanese Minsitry of Education in 1946 as part of its language reforms.
Additional sounds are represented by diacritics or combinations of syllables:
The katakana for with the initial "v" are recent creations. This sound used to written with the ones with the initial "b" and some people still prefer to use those katakana.
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