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Japanese alphabet and characters

Here are some of the Japanese characters. If your document is not showing correctly, then first check that the encoding for that program and font supports Japanese.

Kanji

Japanese kanji

Katakana

Hiragana

Japanese grammar rules

Nouns

Japanese is an agglutinative language. Nouns have no grammatical gender, number and articles, therefore they are noninflecting (although nouns can take politeness prefixes).

There is no differentiation between mass and count nouns.

Verbs

Japanese formatting rules

Date formats

Short date format	yyyy.mm.dd.
	e.g. 2016/03/17 or 平成 17/3/16
Long date format	yyyy 年 M 月 d 日 or gg y 年 M 月 d 日
	e.g. 2016 年 3 月 17 日 or 平成 23 年 3 月 16 日

Numbers and measurements

Decimal separator	. (period)
	e.g. 11.50
Thousand separator	, (comma)
	e.g. 2,000, not 2000
Five and more digit numbers format	split into groups of three from the right using non-breaking space
	e.g. 20 000, not 20000
Measurement units	non-breaking space
	e.g. 1 TB, not 1TB 39˚ C, not 39 ˚C Exception: 10%, not 10 %
Percentage	there is no space between number and the % symbol
Japanese currency name	円 (Yen)
Currency symbol	￥(half-width), 円
Currency symbol position	A space should be inserted between 円 and amounts, but not between amounts and ￥.
	e.g. ￥1,234,567,890.00, 1,234,567,890.00 円

Japanese capitalisation usage

Use of capitalisation

This section does not apply to Japanese.

Solutions for Japanese

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